JUST PALS
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Jack Ford)
FOX FILM CORPORATION
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Bim is the town ne'er-do-well, lazy and shiftless, living a catch-as-catch-can existence.
He feels no shame about his tattered clothing and seems impervious to the derision and ridicule
he endures from his fellow citizens in his rural, early 20th Century village.
Despite this, Bim is a kind-hearted soul, and that becomes very apparent
when he rescues a young runaway from a beating by a railroad cop at the expense of being beaten himself.
Young Bill reciprocates Bim's kindness and has to endure taunting and abuse
from the school bully to defend his 'pal.'
Bim wants Bill to rise above his station and encourages him to bathe
and attend the town's modest one-room schoolhouse presided over by pretty schoolmarm Mary Bruce.
She is being courted by the outwardly respectable bank clerk Harvey Cahill,
who has embezzled funds from his employer and ungallantly presses the kind-hearted Mary
into lending him the school memorial fund money she is entrusted with to cover
the shortfall for the bank ...
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Cast
Buck Jones ... Bim
Helen Ferguson ... Mary Bruce
Georgie Stone ... Bill (as George Stone)
Duke R. Lee ... Sheriff
William Buckley ... Harvey Cahill
Eunice Murdock Moore ... Mrs. Stone
Bert Appling ... Brakeman
Edwin B. Tilton ... Dr. Stone (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Slim Padgett ... Outlaw
John B. Cooke ... Constable
Helen Field
Pedro León ... Undetermined Role
Ida Tenbrook
Directed
John Ford ... (as Jack Ford)
Writing Credits
John McDermott ... (story)
Paul Schofield
Cinematography
George Schneiderman
Trivia
This was John Ford's first picture with Fox Films
after his contract with Universal Pictures expired.
Goofs
Continuity
When Bim is on the porch talking to Cahill,
the lighting on Bim's right side medium close-ups and left-side close-ups do not match.