No Place to Go

Plot

No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber play Old Man Minick. Fred Stone plays elderly retiree Andrew Plummer, who moves in with his well-to-do son Joe (Dennis Morgan) and Joe's wife Gertrude (Gloria Dickson). Before long, Andrew makes a bloody nuisance of himself with his well-intentioned interference in his son's affairs. In the original The Expert, the main character finally realizes he's just in the way and voluntarily heads to an old folk's home. No Place to Go takes a slightly different plot turn, with Andrew accepting a job with Joe's business firm, only to decide over his son's protests that he'd be better off in a retirement home-or as he puts it, "a club for gentleman". In both films, the ageing protagonist finds a kindred spirit in a pugnacious street urchin: Dickie Moore in the original, Sonny Bupp in the remake. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Aldrich Bowker - Heffernan; Al Bridge - Frank Crowley; Sonny Bupp - Tommy; Georgia Caine - Mrs. Bradford; Jimmy Conlin - Rivers; Joe Devlin - Spud; Gloria Dickson - Gertrude Plummer; Frank Faylen - Pete Shafter; Charles Halton - Mr. Bradford; Wright Kramer - Banning; Greta Meyer - Hulda; Dennis Morgan - Joe Plummer; Bernice Pilot - Birdie; Thomas Pogue - Lockwood; Christian Rub - Otto Schlemmer; Fred Stone - Andrew Plummer; Dennie Moore - Harriet Shafter

Credit

Howard Shoup - Costume Designer, Terrell O. Morse - Director, Benjamin Liss - Editor, Arthur Edeson - Cinematographer, Bryan Foy - Producer, Lee Katz - Screenwriter, Lawrence Kimble - Screenwriter, Fred Niblo, Jr. - Screenwriter, George S. Kaufman - Play Author, Edna Ferber - Play Author

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