No Place to Go (1939)
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Synopsis of No Place to Go
No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber play Old Man Minick. Fred Stone plays elderly retiree Andrew Plummer, who moves in with his well-to-do son Joe (Dennis Morgan) and Joe's wife Gertrude (Gloria Dickson). Before long, Andrew makes a bloody nuisance of himself with his well-intentioned interference in his son's affairs. In the original The Expert, the main character finally realizes he's just in the way and voluntarily heads to an old folk's home. No Place to Go takes a slightly different plot turn, with Andrew accepting a job with Joe's business firm, only to decide over his son's protests that he'd be better off in a retirement home-or as he puts it, "a club for gentleman". In both films, the ageing protagonist finds a kindred spirit in a pugnacious street urchin: Dickie Moore in the original, Sonny Bupp in the remake. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of No Place to Go
- Aldrich Bowker - Heffernan
- Sonny Bupp - Tommy
- Jimmy Conlin - Rivers
- Gloria Dickson - Gertrude Plummer
- Charles Halton - Mr. Bradford
- Greta Meyer - Hulda
- Bernice Pilot - Birdie
- Christian Rub - Otto Schlemmer
- Dennie Moore - Harriet Shafter
- Al Bridge - Frank Crowley
- Georgia Caine - Mrs. Bradford
- Joe Devlin - Spud
- Frank Faylen - Pete Shafter
- Wright Kramer - Banning
- Dennis Morgan - Joe Plummer
- Thomas Pogue - Lockwood
- Fred Stone - Andrew Plummer
- Director(s):
- Terrell O. Morse
- Writer(s):
- Lee Katz, Fred Niblo, Jr., Lawrence Kimble
- Producer(s):
- Bryan Foy
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