Acting
Beery and Main's fifth pairing — gruff meets gruffer.
Production
Genuine WWII rationing details as period texture.
Director
Willis Goldbeck
Wallace Beery
Ben Barton
Marjorie Main
Iris Tuttle
Donald Meek
Wilfred Ball
Dorothy Morris
Dorothy Tuttle
Howard Freeman
Cash Riddle
Connie Gilchrist
Mrs. Porter
Gloria Dickson
Miss McCue
Henry O'Neill
Senator Edward White
Richard Hall
Teddy
Charles Halton
Ezra Weeks
Morris Ankrum
Morgan
Douglas Fowley
Dixie Samson
Chester Clute
Senator's Receptionist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was MGM's attempt to replicate the Beery-Main magic of 'The Bugle Sounds' — their fifth of seven films together, though audiences were already tiring of the formula.
Released when actual meat rationing was still active in America, the film's cheerful take on scarcity now reads as either charming escapism or deeply unsettling denial.
US
