BAREFOOT BOY (1938) Jackie Moran & Marcia Mae Jones | Action, Adventure, Crime | B&W

Barefoot Boy is a 1938 American children's adventure film, directed by Karl Brown, and "suggested" by the poem of the same name by American writer John Greenleaf Whittier. Text from the original poem is recited after the titles.

SYNOPSIS
Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend Julia Blaine, her older sister Pige, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth.

CAST & CREW
Jackie Moran as Billy Whittaker
Marcia Mae Jones as Pige Blaine
Bradley Metcalfe as Kenneth Hale
Johnnie Morris as Jeff Blaine
Marilyn Knowlden as Julia Blaine
Terry as herself
Ralph Morgan as John Hale
Claire Windsor as Valerie Hale
Helen MacKellar as Martha Whittaker
Matty Fain as Blake
Frank Puglia as Hank
J. Farrell MacDonald as Warden
Charles D. Brown as Calvin Whittaker
Roger Gray as Dutch
Earle Hodgins as Sheriff
Henry Roquemore as Benjamin Blaine
Hal Cooke as Parker

Directed by Karl Brown
Written by John T. Neville (story and screenplay)
Produced by E.B. Derr
Cinematography Gilbert Warrenton
Edited by Finn Ulback
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date August 3, 1938
Running time 63 minutes
Country United States
Language English