

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.


The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
1938-05-30
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Ohhh! Lou-eese!
1.0The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
6.8Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
6.0Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
5.0A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building control gets in their way. Norwegian comedian Rolv Wesenlund plays 7 different roles in this movie.
5.0A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
0.0The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
7.5In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
7.0Two hustlers are united on the run after an innocent robbery. They travel the country seeking to subsist at the cost of the ingenuity of people.
0.0Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
0.0The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
5.0The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
6.0The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
0.0Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
7.0A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
5.6Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
5.5A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
0.0Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.