Barnacle Bill (1941 film)
Barnacle Bill | |
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Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
Written by | Jack Jevne Hugo Butler |
Story by | Jack Jevne |
Produced by | Milton H. Bren |
Starring | Wallace Beery Marjorie Main |
Cinematography | Clyde De Vinna |
Edited by | Frank Hull |
Music by | Bronisław Kaper Lennie Hayton |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Barnacle Bill is a 1941 feature film starring Wallace Beery. The screen comedy was directed by Richard Thorpe. Barnacle Bill was the second of seven MGM films pairing Beery and character actress Marjorie Main.[1]
Plot
Lazy
Virginia and Marge decide to try to reform Bill. Bill attends church with them, but later shows up drunk for supper. Virginia tells Bill about the death of "Gramps," her maternal grandfather, who was a well-known Gloucester fishing schooner captain. Bill tells her his dream is to captain the We're Here, a Gloucester schooner docked in San Pedro, and Virginia gives him Gramps' captain's telescope as a symbol of the dream. To make it come true, Bill and Pico get a job on a tuna boat and return to find that Virginia and Marge have rehabilitated his rundown boat in the month he has been gone. When Bill collects his pay, he gets much less than expected and suspects that Kelly is cheating the fisherman by under-weighing the catch. Bill confronts one of Kelly's henchmen and cajoles a bribe to keep his "big mouth" shut. Bill is about to accept the money when he sees Virginia bringing the other cheated fishermen to watch him stand up to Kelly. To save face, Bill refuses the bribe and throws the henchman into the harbor. Virginia takes his wages for safekeeping, but Bill gets drunk anyway to celebrate his new status as a hero, and Kelly scuttles his boat after he passes out.
As Bill and Pico work to raise their boat, Virginia is horrified to see that the We're here is being sold at auction. Bill imprudently offers the highest bid. He uses his fishing money for a deposit and has ten days to pay off the balance. Bill wants to sail the We're Here to the
Cast
- Wallace Beery as Bill Johansen
- Marjorie Main as Marge Cavendish
- Leo Carrillo as Pico Rodriguez
- Virginia Weidler as Virginia Johansen
- Donald Meek as Pop Cavendish
- Barton MacLane as John Kelly
- Connie Gilchrist as Mamie
- Sara Haden as Aunt Letty
- William Edmunds as Joe Petillo
- Don Terry as Dixon
- Alec Craig as MacDonald
- Charles Lane as Auctioneer (uncredited)
See also
The other six Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main films:
- Wyoming (1940)
- Jackass Mail (1942)
- The Bugle Sounds (1942)
- Rationing(1944)
- Bad Bascomb (1946)
- Big Jack (1949)
References
External links
- Barnacle Bill at IMDb
- Barnacle Bill at AllMovie
- Barnacle Bill at the TCM Movie Database