A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Acting
Florence Bates steals every scene as the busybody hotel owner.
Direction
Dwan's 87-minute efficiency — no frame wasted.
Writing
The domino-effect script: one mistake, twelve solutions.

Director
Allan Dwan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Allan Dwan directed over 400 films; this was one of his last, made at Republic Pictures on a shoestring.
The $1000 premise hit differently in 1948 — roughly $13,000 today, enough to genuinely destabilize a small town.
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