I'm from Missouri (1939)

7.0/10 80 min Drama Comedy

Overview

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.

Cast

Bob Burns

Sweeney Bliss

Gladys George

Julie Bliss

Gene Lockhart

Porgie Rowe

Judith Barrett

Lola Pike

William Henry

Joel Streight

Patricia Morison

Mrs. Allison 'Rowe' Hamilton

E. E. Clive

Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood

Melville Cooper

Hearne

William Collier Sr.

Smith

Lawrence Grossmith

Colonel Marchbank

G.P. Huntley

Captain Brooks-Bowen

Doris Lloyd

Mrs. Arthur - Duchess of Cricklewood

Tom Dugan

Gus, General Starbuck

Dennie Moore

Kitty Hearne

James Burke

Walt Bliss

Ethel Griffies

Miss Wildhack

Spencer Charters

Charley Shook - Mule Breeder

Raymond Hatton

Darryl Coffee - Mule Breeder

Dick Elliott

Mule Judge

Charles Halton

Henry Couch

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