Come Closer, Folks (1936)
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Synopsis of Come Closer, Folks
Tailor-made for the talents of fast-talking James Dunn, Come Closer, Folks stars Dunn as sidewalk pitchman Jim Keene. Our hero manages to wangle a "legitimate" job as a small-town department-store sales clerk, instantly falling in love with boss's daughter Peggy Woods (Marian Marsh). When the store is threatened with bankruptcy, Jim enlists the aid of his fellow street hucksters to drum up business with their patented hard-sell methods, a strategy that gets him promoted to assistant manager. Eventually he runs afoul of the law, but Jim manages to smooth-talk the jury into letting him off the hook. Come Closer, Folks is another of those Columbia "B"-pictures which showed up incessantly on TV in the 1950s and 1960s then suddenly vanished when audiences demanded "newer" pictures. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Come Closer, Folks
- James Dunn - Jim Keene
- Wynne Gibson - Mae
- George McKay - Rudolph
- John Gallaudet - Pitchman
- Wallis Clark - Mr. Houston
- Marian Marsh - Peggy Woods
- Herman Bing - Herman
- Gene Lockhart - Elmer Woods
- Gene Morgan - Pitchman
- Director(s):
- David Ross Lederman
- Writer(s):
- Lee Loeb, Harold Buchman, Aben Kandel
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