Main Cast: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson
Release Year: 1958
Country: US
Run Time: 80 minutes
Plot
With Andy Hardy Comes Home, Mickey Rooney hoped to revive the character -- and the movie series -- that had brought him fame and fortune back in the 1930s and 1940s. Returning to his home town of Carvel after several years absence, lawyer Andy Hardy (Rooney) brings his wife Jane (Patricia Breslin) and two children Andy Jr. (played by Rooney's real-life son Teddy) and Jimmy (Johnny Weissmuller Jr.) along on his sentimental journey. Andy's dad Judge Hardy is long gone (though the late Lewis Stone appears in flashbacks), but his mom (Fay Holden), sister Marian (Cecilia Parker), and Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) welcome him with open arms. After a while, Andy reveals the real reason for his return: now in the employ of an aircraft company, he hopes to convince his bosses to build a plant in Carvel. The fly in the ointment is crooked businessman Chandler (Frank Ferguson), who, when Andy refuses to purchese Chandler's land at a ridiculously exorbitant price, mounts a campaign to discredit the Hardy family. A pleasant enough diversion, Andy Hardy Comes Home failed to spark interest in a new Hardy Family series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Joey Forman - Bezzy Anderson; Jerry Colonna - Doc; Vaughan Taylor - Thomas Chandler; William Leslie - Jack Bailey; Tom Duggan - Councilman Warren; Jeanne Baird - Sally Anderson; Gina Gillespie - Cricket; Jimmy Bates - Chuck; Teddy Rooney - Andy, Jr.; Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. - Jimmy
Credit
William Horning - Art Director, Urie McCleary - Art Director, Howard W. Koch - Director, John B. Rogers - Editor, Van Alexander - Composer (Music Score), Mickey Rooney - Songwriter, Harold Spina - Songwriter, Brenton Spencer - Cinematographer, Harold E. Wellman - Cinematographer, William W. Spencer - Cinematographer, Red Doff - Producer, Robert Morris Donley - Screenwriter, Edward Everett Hutshing - Screenwriter, Aurania Rouverol - Screenwriter
