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Yokel Boy (1942)

Yokel Boy poster
Directed by
Joseph Santley
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A naive young man from the countryside hopes to make it big in show business. He stumbles into a series of comic mishaps involving a Hollywood producer and a determined reporter.

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What happens

Yokel Boy is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Isabel Dawn. It is based on the 1939 play Yokel Boy by Lew Brown. The film stars Albert Dekker, Joan Davis, Eddie Foy Jr., Alan Mowbray, Roscoe Karns and Mikhail Rasumny. The film was released on March 13, 1942, by Republic Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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