Movie Drama
YOUTH ON THE LOOSE! BUFFETED BY FATE!
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Jane Withers Paul Kelly Lee Patrick John Litel Eric Sinclair Dorothy Peterson Gertrude Michael H.B. Warner Richard Byron Roger Clark Adele Mara Bob Stebbins Charles Trowbridge Helen Talbot Joel McGinnis Tom London Emmett Vogan Stanley Andrews Sam Ash Walter Baldwin Trevor Bardette Virginia Brissac Roy Butler Virginia Carroll Edmund Cobb Roy Darmour Edward Earle David Forrest Joel Friedkin Harrison Greene Eric Hansen Len Hendry Nolan Leary Peggy Leon Patricia Lynn William Murphy Jack O'Shea Hal Price Dick Scott C. Montague Shaw George Sherwood Edwin Stanley Jimmy Strand Sheila Stuart Robert J. Wilke
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