Father Steps Out (1941) Online
A remake of Monogram's 1934 "City Limits" with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the original story, Jack Woodford, receives no mention here. George Waggner (as Joseph West),who adapted the story for the first film, takes an "original screenplay" credit here with no nod in the direction of the man who wrote the story in the first place. A glance at a few Universal B-westerns Waggner "wrote" for Bob Baker will find that the majority of them had also been written before by other writers, mostly in the John Wayne Lone Star westerns. Edmond Kelso's additional dialogue credit must have been for the interplay between Frank Faylen's and Charlie Hall's hobo characters, especially when Faylen starts explaining why the sixty-cent dollar is still worth a dollar in a 40-year precursor to voo-doo economics. Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent ...
| Complete credited cast: | |||
 | Frank Albertson | - | Jimmy Dugan |
 | Jed Prouty | - | J. B. Matthews |
 | Lorna Gray | - | Helen Matthews |
 | Frank Faylen | - | Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam |
 | John Dilson | - | Tom Oliver |
 | Charlie Hall | - | Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon (as Charles Hall) |
 | Kathryn Sheldon | - | Aunt Martha Matthews |
 | John Maxwell | - | City Editor Macy |
 | Mary Field | - | Mrs. Benton, Farm Woman |
 | Tristram Coffin | - | Dr. R. G. Stafford |
| Paul Maxey | - | Jenks, the Butler |
| J. Arthur Young | - | Banker |
| Gene O'Donnell | - | Jones |
This film received its earliest documented telecasts in New York City Monday 20 September 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Syracuse Wednesday 27 April 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8), and in Los Angeles Saturday 14 January 1950 on KNBH (Channel 4).