Mind Your Own Business
Cast & Crew
Norman Z. Mcleod
Charles Ruggles
Alice Brady
Lyle Talbot
Benny Baker
Gene Lockhart
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit. The Daily Recorder , meanwhile, has backed mayoral candidate Bottles, and when Melba overhears him speak against crooked politicians during a rub-down at a spa, Orville writes a column about Bottles being "rubbed out," and the candidate is actually murdered. Meanwhile, Bottles' opposition, Brannigan, is out to get Orville. The district attorney, believing that Orville knows the story behind Bottles' murder, interrogates and then arrests him, but he is released by Crane. When Brannigan abducts Orville, Crane is ecstatic about the publicity and the Boy Scouts retreat into the woods to find him. After Melba blows up shotgun shells in the fireplace of the cabin where she and Orville are being held hostage, the gangsters flee and the scouts apprehend them as the police and Crane arrive. The scouts then march back into town with Orville.
Director
Norman Z. Mcleod
Cast
Charles Ruggles
Alice Brady
Lyle Talbot
Benny Baker
Gene Lockhart
Jack Larue
Lloyd Crane
Frankie Darro
William Demarest
Robert Baldwin
"nicodemus"
Paul Harvey
Theodor Von Eltz
Duke York
Boy Scouts Of America
Horace Stewart
Charles Wilson
William Davidson
David Sharpe
Crew
Basia Bassett
Emanuel Cohen
Emanuel Cohen
William Fox
Hugo Grenzbach
Wiard Ihnen
John Francis Larkin
George Mcguire
Robert Pittack
Earl Rettig
Dore Schary
George Stoll
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
In the opening credits, the makers of this film express their gratitude "to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America for its generous cooperation." An early Hollywood Reporter production chart credits Hugo Grenzbach with sound, although he is not credited on the film or in reviews.
