Alias The Deacon (1940) DVD

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Alias The Deacon (1940)

Director:

Christy Cabanne

Writers:

Nat Perrin (screenplay), Charles Grayson (screenplay)

Stars:

Bob Burns, Mischa Auer, Peggy Moran

Radio humorist Bob Burns plays the title role in Alias the Deacon. Based on a stage play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clements (previously filmed in 1927 with Jean Hersholt), the story concerns a philosophical drifter named Deke Caswell (Burns) who is mistaken for the new deacon of a small town. A gambler by nature, Caswell decides to continue the clerical pose so that he can divest the locals of their hard-earned dollars. Instead, he turns honest, eventually solving all of the town's problems. A subplot concerns the "scandalous" (but wholly innocent) relationship between truck driver Johnny Sloan (Dennis O'Keefe) and hitchhiker Phyllis (Peggy Moran). This being a Universal film of the early 1940s, it was all but mandatory for Mischa Auer to show up in an incongrous but amusing supporting role.

Here is the link to the film at the Internet Movie database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032191/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2