HOOSIER SCHOOLBOY(1937)
So, not a comedy. Rooney plays a kid from the
wrong side of town that's devided by a feud all
centering around milk! Yep, milk! His father
is a war hero that has fallen on bad times which
makes it tough on Mikey's character at school!
The new teacher(Anne Nagel) takes a liking to
Mickey's character and tries to help him out
and along with him his father! This is a pretty
serious movie, which speaks of PSTD way before
it was ever a subject! The only issue I have is
that it ended rather abruptly! A+
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
This is a decent low-budget drama with some
interesting themes, and it also includes solid
performances by Anne Nagel and a young Mickey
Rooney. It ties together several plot lines in
a way that works rather well, and although most
of the characters remain one-dimensional, the
overall situation is interesting enough to
hold your attention.
Nagel plays a strong but sensitive schoolteacher
who arrives in a new town just as feelings are
running high due to a strike by the local dairy
farmers, who aren't getting the price they want
for their cows' milk. Rooney plays one of the
students, a cynical outcast with a father who
is a shell-shocked former war hero. These issues
would probably have struck a chord in a 1930s
audience, and to some degree the ideas are still
of some relevance now.
The story that develops moves a little unevenly,
and eventually it gets a little predictable, which
keeps it from being a better movie overall. But
it never loses your interest, and it's not bad
at all for such an inexpensively-made feature. - crrowax
Mickey Rooney ... Shockey Carter
Anne Nagel ... Mary Evans
Frank Shields ... John 'Jack' Matthews Jr.
Edward Pawley ... Captain Fred Carter
William Gould ... John Matthews Sr.
Dorothy Vaughan ... Miss Hodges the School Mistress
Anita Deniston ... Elvira
Harry Hayden ... Mr. Townsend
Bradley Metcalfe ... Roger Townsend
Doris Rankin ... School Girl
Walter Long ... Riley
Helena Grant ... School Girl
Cecil Weston ... Teacher
Mary Field ... School Board Secretary
Zita Moulton ... School Girl
Fred Kelsey ... Mr. Crowder (as Fred A. Kelsey)
Lester Dorr ... Noble Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Junior Hughes ... (uncredited)
Elaine Koehler ... School Girl (uncredited)
Mildred Kornman ... (uncredited)
Buddy Londelius ... (uncredited)
June Parkes ... School Girl (uncredited)
Martin H. Pawley ... Classmate (uncredited)
Maude Philby ... Mrs. Townsend (uncredited)
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