***SPOILERS*** A cat's meow type movie with a fearless dog chasing alley cat Ruhbarb, played by Orangey as well as thirteen different other cats, is given total control of it's late owner's T. J Banner's, Gene Lockhart, $30,000,000.00 dollar stock and realest empire that includes the cellar dwelling baseball team the Brooklyn Loons that makes him an overnight media celebrity. This causes a mutiny by the teams players feeling insulted to have a cat as their boss as well as Banner's spoiled daughter Myra, Elsie Holmes,going as far as getting in touch with the local bookmakers to knock the cat off so she can get her hands on her late father's money.
As things turn out Ruhbard has magical powers that help the Brooklyn team win every time he attends their games and has his his head rubbed on, for good luck, by the Brooklyn players. With the Loons making it to the world series and winning the first three games over the favorite New York Yankess he's kidnapped by the bookies and held hostage. That's unless their paid by his guardian and Brooklyn Loons' publicity man Eric Yager, Ray Malland, $50,000.00 to free him as well as keep him from showing up at the critical seventh game at Banner Field in Brooklyn against the Yankees that would spark the hitless Loons, being behind 5 to 0, to win it.
***SPOILERS***Making a clean getaway from his captors Ruhbarb does make it to the game on time and energize the Loons to make a come back from behind win against the Yankees. Even if it had Yagers fiancée Pollty Sickels,Jan Sterling, go into a sneezing fit, she's allergic to Ruhbarb, and almost miss marrying Yager that evening. Ruhbarb ends up not only having his team the Brooklyn Loons win the world series but getting hitched up with his girl friend, a kitten that's always at the baseball games, and having three litters of kittens by the time the movie ends! That has actor, who was married to actress Jan Sterling in real life, Paul Douglas give the final comical punch line to the film as he's sitting on a bench in the park reading a newspaper.
As things turn out Ruhbard has magical powers that help the Brooklyn team win every time he attends their games and has his his head rubbed on, for good luck, by the Brooklyn players. With the Loons making it to the world series and winning the first three games over the favorite New York Yankess he's kidnapped by the bookies and held hostage. That's unless their paid by his guardian and Brooklyn Loons' publicity man Eric Yager, Ray Malland, $50,000.00 to free him as well as keep him from showing up at the critical seventh game at Banner Field in Brooklyn against the Yankees that would spark the hitless Loons, being behind 5 to 0, to win it.
***SPOILERS***Making a clean getaway from his captors Ruhbarb does make it to the game on time and energize the Loons to make a come back from behind win against the Yankees. Even if it had Yagers fiancée Pollty Sickels,Jan Sterling, go into a sneezing fit, she's allergic to Ruhbarb, and almost miss marrying Yager that evening. Ruhbarb ends up not only having his team the Brooklyn Loons win the world series but getting hitched up with his girl friend, a kitten that's always at the baseball games, and having three litters of kittens by the time the movie ends! That has actor, who was married to actress Jan Sterling in real life, Paul Douglas give the final comical punch line to the film as he's sitting on a bench in the park reading a newspaper.