Take It Big (1944)
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and musicals. One of these was Take it Big, starring Jack Haley and Harriet Hilliard. Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jack Haley - Jack North
- Mary Beth Hughes - Gaye Livingstone
- Arline Judge - Pert Martin
- Lucille Gleason - Sophie
- George Meeker - John Hankinson
- Frank Forest - Harvey Phillips
- Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra - Themselves
- Harriet Hilliard - Jerry Clinton
- Richard Lane - Eddie Hampton
- Fritz Feld - Dr. Dittenhoffer
- Fuzzy Knight - Cowboy Joe
- Ralph Peters - House Detective
- Nils T. Granlund
- Director(s):
- Frank McDonald
- Writer(s):
- Joe Bigelow, Howard J. Green
- Producer(s):
- William Pine, William C. Thomas
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