Rascals
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
H. Bruce Humberstone
Jane Withers
Rochelle Hudson
Robert Wilcox
Borrah Minevitch
Minevitch Gang
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Synopsis
After a gypsy caravan is chased out of a town, they pitch camp on the road and prepare "Mulligan stew" with the vegetables that were thrown at them as they left. When Gypsy, a rambunctious adolescent, whines that she wants meat, Gino, her thieving pal, and his gang capture a goose. During the meal, Tony, an ex-Yale football player, who has traveled with the gypsies since his marriage broke up because of his wife's unfaithfulness, rebuffs the flirtations of Stella, the fortune-teller. Just then, a woman in a fur coat at the top of a hill faints and falls. When the police arrive and order the gypsies off private property, Tony hides the woman in his wagon. As they travel on, the woman revives and says that she cannot remember anything except that she was running away. Although Tony is skeptical of her story and cynical of her "type," Gypsy welcomes the woman, whom she calls her "Rawnie," which means "lady" in the Gypsy language, and teaches her how to tell fortunes. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, a wealthy couple, learn that police have found the wrecked car belonging to their daughter, who vanished just before her wedding was to take place. The police think that the daughter ran away to avoid marrying fortune-hunting Baron Von Brun. After Gypsy introduces Rawnie to patrons as the world's greatest gypsy fortune-teller, Stella, jealous, starts a fight. When Tony pulls Rawnie off Stella, she bites him. That night, when Rawnie goes to Tony's tent to apologize, Gypsy encourages the others to play romantic music. Tony insults Rawnie and she slaps him. He pushes her out of the tent; however, when he sees Stella throw a knife at her, he rushes to Rawnie and kisses her passionately. After the gypsy camp is put into quarantine because of an outbreak of mumps, Gypsy and Rawnie sneak out to make money in town to buy food. When a man accuses Rawnie of taking his tie pin and calls the police, Gypsy and Rawnie run, and Rawnie is hit by a laundry truck. After the doctor suggests that a previous blow at the back of her head may have been the cause of her amnesia, Tony finally believes that Rawnie has been telling the truth and has not just been using them to avoid another situation. The doctor states that an operation might restore Rawnie's memory, but that afterward, she might have no memory of the period during her amnesia. Despite Gypsy's plea that they not risk this, Tony makes plans to raise the money. After Gypsy convinces a specialist to do the operation, Rawnie at first does not want it because she has been happy with the gypsies and knows that there must have been something frightening in her past from which she ran away. Tony convinces her; however, when Gypsy goes to see her after the operation, she does not recognize her. Soon Tony reads in the newspaper that Rawnie, identified as Margaret Adams, is going to marry Baron Von Brun. Although Gypsy tries to encourage Tony to steal her away, he refuses. Gypsy then goes to the Adams house and tells Mrs. Adams that her daughter has a gypsy husband, who is irate and skilled at throwing knives. Gypsy is then locked into a room, as is Gino, who has tried to impersonate the husband. They send a pigeon back to their camp with a message, and Tony leads the gypsies to the house, where they disrupt the wedding. Gypsy has Gino play romantic gypsy music, and Margaret, recognizing Tony, says his name and kisses him. Gypsy then arranges for them to be married.
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast
Jane Withers
Rochelle Hudson
Robert Wilcox
Borrah Minevitch
Minevitch Gang
Steffi Duna
Katharine Alexander
Chester Clute
Jose Crespo
Paul Stanton
Frank Reicher
Edward Cooper
Kathleen Burke
Myra Marsh
Frank Puglia
Robert Gleckler
Eddie Dunn
Howard Hickman
Phil Smalley
Mary Treen
Tom Herbert
George Chandler
Billy Bletcher
Marcelle Corday
Billy Wayne
Gloria Roy
Jack Baxley
Edward Gargan
Ivan Miller
Gino Corrado
Wilfred Lucas
Si Jenks
Phillis Coghlan
Jerry Mandy
Charles Middleton
Bert Roach
John Sheehan
Crew
Harry Akst
William H. Anderson
Arthur Berthelet
Harry Brand
Jack Breth
Sidney Clare
Gordon Cooper
Edward Cronjager
Henry Cronjager
L. B. Dix
Haldane Douglas
Ed. Ebele
Mac Elliot
Robert Ellis
Lola Figland
Bill Fremdling
Duke Goux
John Hassett
Hal Herman
Bernard Herzbrun
Bruce Hunsaker
Roy Ivey
Ray Jones
Samuel Kaylin
Monroe Liebgold
Marie Livingston
Helen Logan
Harvey Manger
Roy Martin
Louis F. Moore
Phillip Moore
Jack Murray
Helen A. Myron
Ray Nolan
Cliff Ransom
John Reinhardt
Viola Richards
Wilma Ryan
George Schwietzer
Rose Steinberg
John Stone
D. J. Vecsei
E. Clayton Ward
Bud Westmore
William Whitley
James Witherspoon
Art Wright
George Wright
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The working titles of this film were Gypsy, Little Gypsy and Little Dynamite.
