Monogram Pictures like PRC and other low budget programmers had many short fun movies in the forties. This one like King Of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies which just appeared on TCM often had Mantan Moreland Gale Storm John Carradine and other actors and actresses who kept working even if not at the major studios. The copy I watched was 59 minutes long and probably was from the days when these films were often on TV. A gangster who has killed a bank messenger has his buddies get him to a bus where he sits next to Freckles Winslow who tells him about Fairfield Indiana a little town of 500 where of course the gangster figures he'll lay low for a while. Back in Fairfield Jeff who wears a hat that says porter is in trouble along with Danny over a gold finding machine which doesn't find or do anything. Freckles brings Jack Leach (the gangster) to the hotel where he begins to see a chance to fleece the town through a get the highway closer to town scheme. Jack brings in his buddy Nate Quigley who immediately starts leering at Freckles one time girlfriend Jane the daughter of the bank president. Jane thinks Nate is a good guy (which he is not)and fights with Freckles. Nate ends up murdered (by who it's never really made clear and pretty cool knife in the back) and two more gangsters show up posing as FBI and get ready to rob the bank. Freckles and Danny foil the robbers. Freckles ends up getting kissed by the lovely Jane and Jeff ends up having to eat his fake gold machine piece by piece being fed to him by the other black guy a chauffeur. Plenty of fun for everyone who enjoys these kind of movies.
Review of Freckles Comes Home
