Rationing (1944)
MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing products during World War II. Wallace Beery plays a small town butcher who comes under fire from the local citizens for attempting to honor the ration system. Beery finds himself swamped in a sea of government red tape, and at times is tempted to sidestep the law, but at the end he does his patriotic duty. Like Laurel and Hardy's MGM feature Air Raid Wardens (43), Rationing tends to sacrifice laughs to get its message across. The Beery film has the added handicap of running about twenty minutes too long. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, (more)
- Director(s):
- Willis Goldbeck
Synopsis of Rationing
MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing products during World War II. Wallace Beery plays a small town butcher who comes under fire from the local citizens for attempting to honor the ration system. Beery finds himself swamped in a sea of government red tape, and at times is tempted to sidestep the law, but at the end he does his patriotic duty. Like Laurel and Hardy's MGM feature Air Raid Wardens (43), Rationing tends to sacrifice laughs to get its message across. The Beery film has the added handicap of running about twenty minutes too long. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Rationing
- Wallace Beery - Ben Barton
- Donald Meek - Wilfred Ball
- Howard Freeman - Cash Riddle
- Tommy Batten - Lance Barton
- Henry O'Neill - Sen. Edward A. White
- Charles Halton - Ezra Weeks
- Carol Ann Beery - Herself
- Chester Clute - Roberts
- Edward Kilroy - Minister
- Natalie Draper
- Eddy Waller - Smith
- Milton Parsons - Hank
- Milt Kibbee - Wright
- Anne O'Neal - Woman
- Al Hill - Greenie
- Marjorie Main - Iris Tuttle
- Dorothy Morris - Dorothy Tuttle
- Connie Gilchrist - Mrs. Porter
- Gloria Dickson - Miss McCue
- Richard Hall - Teddy
- Morris Ankrum - Mr. Morgan
- Douglas Fowley - Dixie Samson
- Erville Alderson - Gil
- Kay Williams
- Chill Wills - Bus Driver
- Arthur Space - Leafy
- Suzanne Kaaren
- Kay Medford - Information Girl
- Robert E. O'Connor - Sheriff McGuiness
- Hazel Brooks
- Director(s):
- Willis Goldbeck
- Writer(s):
- Harry Ruskin, Grant Garett, William Lipman
- Producer(s):
- Orville O. Dull
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