Scott Pembroke

Telephone Operator -- A telephone operator covering for a friend's 'fling' finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.

Telephone Operator -- An impending flood has telephone linemen Red (Withers) and Shorty (Hymer) racing against the oncoming storms to hook up phone lines to a huge dam. Red manages to find time during his heroics to romance telephone operator Helen (Allen), which begins as a stormy professional relationship, filled with enjoyable witty banter between the two. Shorty has a romance of his own with Helen's friend and co-operator Dottie (White). The weather intensifies and the flood arrives, challenging all four in their duties to keep the telephone lines running during the crisis, against all odds and some amount of danger.

This film features the first starring role for legendary comedian Jack Benny in a role completely different from his well know persona. Benny portrays Dr. John Harvey, a traveling medicine show owner and the lead huckster of the group. Dr. Harvey and his show come to a small town where a young woman and her brother live with and work for an abusive father. Dr. Harvey puts aside his greedy nature and takes a genuine interest in the two siblings while falling in love with the young woman. About to be married off by her father to an elderly millionaire, the young woman desperately waits for the arrival of Dr. Harvey to take her from the ceremony.

A telephone operator covering for a friend's 'fling' finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.