The always-reliable Fred MacMurray starred in Disney’s Follow Me, Boys!, a comic drama about the founding of a small-town Boy Scout troop to keep the local lads on the straight and narrow. Think Boys Town with more nature hikes.
1930’s musician Lem Siddons (MacMurray) decides to pack up his saxophone and settle down in a small Midwestern burg, hoping to eventually become a lawyer.
Lem’s eye is caught by Vida Downey (Vera Miles), a local bank teller. With Vida’s urging, Lem helps start up a new Boy Scout troop, serving as scoutmaster.
Though most of the community supports Lem and the boys, cold-hearted banker Ralph Hastings (Elliott Reid) threatens to have the troop kicked out of its headquarters.
But with the help of Hastings’ rich Aunt Hetty (Lillian Gish) and an unswerving dedication to his boys’ futures, Lem just might be able to turn things around.
A young Kurt Russell appears as a particularly troubled scout.
Radiating an old-fashioned sentimentality, Follow Me, Boys! warmed the hearts of 60’s moviegoers and earned a healthy profit for Disney.
Lemuel ‘Lem’ Siddons Fred MacMurray
Dr Ferris
Tol Avery
Vida Downey
Vera Miles
Duke
David Bailey
Hetty Seibert
Lillian Gish
John Everett Hughes
Charles Ruggles
Ralph Hastings
Elliott Reid
Whitey
Kurt Russell
Cora Anderson
Madge Blake
Nora White
Luana Patten
Leo
Bill Booth
Melody Murphy
Ken Murray
Umpire
Richard Bakalyan
Related Posts
French Mistress, A (1960) Headmaster John Crane, MA (Cecil Parker), the guiding light of Melbury Public School. finds himself without a French master when…
Flirting (1989) Director John Duigan began the coming-of-age story of Danny Embling in the wonderful The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and continues…
Peter Pan (1953) Sir James M. Barrie's book Peter Pan was a long-time favourite of Walt Disney's, and the pioneering animator worked for years to…
Almost Angels (1962) A boy from the wrong side of the tracks wants to join the team, gets hazed by the upper class,…
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989) Frank and Jack Baker (real-life brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges) are a cocktail lounge piano duo who content themselves playing to empty…
Reptile, The (1966) Blowup may have been the peak of auteur-driven cinema in Britain in 1966, but the year also represented something of…
King Of Hearts (1966) One of the lesser luminaries of the French New Wave, Philippe de Broca scored a cult hit with this atmospheric…
El Dorado (1966) Gunfighter Cole Thornton (John Wayne) is invited to the western town of El Dorado to take part in a range…
Lem’s eye is caught by Vida Downey (Vera Miles), a local bank teller. With Vida’s urging, Lem helps start up a new Boy Scout troop, serving as scoutmaster.
