I'm from Missouri

Apr 6, 1939

1h 20m

★ 0.0

Your "Arkansas Traveler" is back---in his grand new comedy hit!

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Sweeney Bliss

Bob Burns

Julie Bliss

Gladys George

Porgie Rowe

Gene Lockhart

Lola Pike

Judith Barrett

Joel Streight

William Henry

Mrs. Allison 'Rowe' Hamilton

Patricia Morison

Mr. Arthur, Duke of Cricklewood

E. E. Clive

Hearne

Melville Cooper

Smith

William Collier Sr.

Colonel Marchbank

Lawrence Grossmith

Captain Brooks-Bowen

G.P. Huntley

Mrs. Arthur - Duchess of Cricklewood

Doris Lloyd

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