Life Begins at Forty

1935

Life Begins at 40 is a 1935 black-and-white film starring Will Rogers and Richard Cromwell. It is based on the non-fiction self-help book Life Begins at Forty by Walter B. Pitkin.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

Kenesaw H.Clark(Will Rogers) is a small-town newspaper editor/publisher who depends on common horse sense to run his business; which is on a shoestring.Sometimes he accepts live chickens in lieu of cash.

When Clark hires an ex-convict(Richard Cromwell) to work on the paper,the pompous town banker Colonel Joseph Abercrombie (George Barbier) raises the roof.Cromwell did prison time for an alleged theft from the bank when he was a teller there. Clark has doubts about Cromwell's guilt and refuses to fire him.Abercrombie takes revenge by calling in his loans on the paper.Rogers does his best to continue,even printing the news on butcher paper

Clark responds not with anger,but with ridicule.He hires professional hog callers to disrupt a political speech by the Colonel. These worthies do their job a little TOO well,as a small army of hogs answers the call and destroy the speaker's platform.

The actual bank thief from years ago was the Colonel's own neer-do-well son Joe(Thomas Beck);who has long since lost the original theft money at the racetrack.One night,the Colonel surprises someone attempting to crack the safe in his private office.He shoots and wounds the burglar,not recognizing him as his son.

The Colonel incites a mob against the ex-convict,and Rogers has to fend them off single-handed---helped by burly neighbor Ida Harris(Jane Darwell),who beats everybody in sight with a broom.

A policeman finally notifies The Colonel that his son is in the hospital and has made a full confession.Rogers had figured out some time ago that The Colonel's son was the thief,but didn't know how to break the news to him.

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:1935
weitere Titel:
Life Begins at Forty ast cy
La vita comincia a quarant'anni
Genre:Dramedy
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:Englisch
Farbe:Schwarzweiß
IMDB: 175
Verleih:Fox Film Corporation
Regie:George Marshall
Drehbuch:Walter B. Pitkin
Produzent:Sol M. Wurtzel
Darsteller:Will Rogers
Richard Cromwell
George Barbier
Rochelle Hudson
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