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Two Bright Boys (1939)

Two Bright Boys poster
Directed by
Joseph Santley
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two young men get into a series of misadventures. One of them is a wealthy heir and the other is a working class kid, and they try to help each other out.

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What happens

Two Bright Boys is a 1939 American drama film directed by Joseph Santley, written by Val Burton and Edmund Hartmann, and starring Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Alan Dinehart, Melville Cooper, Dorothy Peterson and J. M. Kerrigan. It was released on September 15, 1939, by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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