The Good Fellows

The Good Fellows

70 mins | Comedy | Aug. 11, 1943

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.

The Good Fellows

70 mins | Comedy | Aug. 11, 1943

The Good Fellows
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
Producers Paramount
Original title The Good Fellows
Directors Jo Graham
Writers Hugh Wedlock Jr., George S. Kaufman, Howard Snyder, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Cast

Cecil Kellaway

as Jim Hilton

Helen Walker

as Ethel Hilton

Mabel Paige

as Miss Kent

James Brown

as Tom Drayton

Patti Hale

as Sprat (as Diana Hale)

Kathleen Lockhart

as Mary Hilton

Douglas Wood

as John Drayton

Norma Varden

as Mrs. Drayton

Olin Howland

as Reynolds

Tom Fadden

as Harvey

Victor Potel

as Branders (uncredited)

Will Wright

as Brother from Danville (uncredited)