Duncan Mansfield

So This Is Washington -- So This Is Washington

So This Is Washington -- Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.

Prosperous Peter Cortlant (Leif Erickson) helps young Joey Rogers (played by teenager Sidney Lumet, before he became a director) after the boy suffers injuries in a tenement fire -- and is horrified to learn that he himself owns the unsafe building where Joey lives. As he learns more about his tenants and begins to fall for Joey's older sister, Mary (Sylvia Sidney), Peter resolves to take action to make their lives better.

(1936) Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Janet Beecher, Robert Gleckler. A vile gangster pushes Brown toward a life of crime, ordering him to kill a horse jockey. He refuses. The crook tells Brown, who's oblivious to his real parents, that he is his dad and that the Governor's wife is his mom! Brown guns him down and is soon sentenced to hang. Drake, as Brown's gal pal, is precious. Gleckler is great as his slimy dad. Based on a Broadway play. From 16mm.