Pardon My Past (1945) DVD-R

Starring Fred MacMurray, Marguerite Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, William
Demarest, Rita Johnson, Harry Davenport, Douglass Dumbrille
Directed by Leslie Fenton

Print: black/white
Runtime: 88 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

A case of mistaken identity leads to hilarity in this comedy. Eddie (Fred
MacMurray) and Chuck (William Demarest) are a pair of GIs who've just
been sprung from the service and plan to open a mink ranch in
Wisconsin. No sooner do they arrive in the Cheese State than one Jim
Arnold (Akim Tamiroff) mistakes Eddie for Francis Pemberton, a footloose
playboy who owes Jim a very large gambling debt. Hard as he tries, Eddie
can't convince Jim that he isn't Pemberton — and Jim's strong-arm men
demand that Eddie pay up. Eddie goes to Pemberton's estate in hopes of
clearing up the confusion, but he learns that the gambler has apparently
fled to Mexico. Eddie meets Joan (Marguerite Chapman), a poor but
pretty relative of the Pembertons who strikes his fancy, but several other
members of the family also think that Eddie and Francis are the same
person — and they're none too fond of their absent relation.