Five Little Peppers at Home

1940 American film
  • Edith Fellows
  • Charles Peck
  • Tommy Bond
  • Bobby Larson
  • Dorothy Anne Seese
  • Clarence Kolb
  • Ronald Sinclair
CinematographyAllen G. SieglerEdited byViola LawrenceMusic byMorris Stoloff (musical director)
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 8, 1940 (1940-02-08)
Running time
67 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Five Little Peppers at Home is a 1940 American drama black and white film. It is the second Five Little Peppers film.

Plot

The copper mine co-owned by Polly and Mr. King has not yielded any copper, and the stress has left King bedridden. Polly learns that King's valet Martin is knowledgeable in geology, and Polly and her siblings bring Martin to the mine to look for a copper vein. Ben accidentally causes a cave-in, trapping his sisters and brothers.

Cast

  • Edith Fellows as Polly Pepper
  • Charles Peck as Ben Pepper
  • Tommy Bond as Joey Pepper
  • Bobby Larson as Davie Pepper
  • Dorothy Anne Seese as Phronsie Pepper
  • Clarence Kolb as Mr. King
  • Ronald Sinclair as Jasper
  • Rex Evans as Martin
  • Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. Decker
  • Laura Treadwell as Aunt Martha

Reception

On March 6, 1940, Variety wrote, "More fatal about the second Pepper story is its tediousness and with one or two exceptions, the dullness of the characters. Weak."[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Blottner, Gene (2011). "The Five Little Peppers". Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. ISBN 9780786486724.

External links

  • Five Little Peppers at Home at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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