Five Little Peppers at Home

Feb 8, 1940

1h 7m

★ 6.3

That family's here again...straight out of the famous stories beloved by millions!

Overview

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.

Genres

Family

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Mrs. Pepper

Dorothy Peterson

Polly Pepper

Edith Fellows

Ben Pepper

Charles Peck

Joey Pepper

Tommy Bond

Davie Pepper

Bobby Larson

Phronsie Pepper

Dorothy Ann Seese

J.H. King

Clarence Kolb

Jasper King

Ronald Sinclair

Martin

Rex Evans

Mr. Decker

Herbert Rawlinson

Aunt Martha Wilcox

Laura Treadwell

Thomas J. Townsend

Paul Everton

Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

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5.0

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No overview available.

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6.0

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4.5

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6.5

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5.7

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