The Inside Story (film)

The Inside Story is a 1948 American comedy drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Mary Loos and Richard Sale. The film stars Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick, Gene Lockhart and Florence Bates. The film was released on March 14, 1948 by Republic Pictures.

Synopsis
The story is laid in a Vermont town in 1933 in which six residents find themselves in some kind of a predicament because the government had declared a Bank Holiday to avoid run-on-the-bank situations happening across the country. By a curious turn-of-events ten $100 bills are put in an inn's safe. Inkeeper Horace Taylor finds them and concludes they are payments from his debtors. He immediately pays off his own debts---only to be told later by his clerk, Uncle Ed, that the money belonged to a guest at the inn. Taylor begins a frantic effort to trace and regain the money, which is merrily circulating around the town from storekeeper J. J. Johnson to a landlady, Geraldine Atherton, to a lawyer, Tom O'Connor and his wife Audrey, to an artist, Waldo Williams and his fiancée Francie Taylor, the inn-keepers daughter. Plus, two rum-running bootleggers are conducting their own search for the bills. As Taylor trails the elusive money, the individual dramas of the various possessors are revealed."Money is like blood needs to circulate".

Cast

 * Marsha Hunt as Francine Taylor
 * William Lundigan as Waldo 'Bill' Williams
 * Charles Winninger as Uncle Ed
 * Gail Patrick as Audrey O'Connor
 * Gene Lockhart as Horace Taylor
 * Florence Bates as Geraldine Atherton
 * Hobart Cavanaugh as Mason
 * Allen Jenkins as Eddie
 * Roscoe Karns as Eustace Peabody
 * Robert Shayne as T.W. 'Tom' O'Connor
 * Will Wright as J.J. Johnson
 * William Haade as Rocky
 * Frank Ferguson as Eph
 * Tom Fadden as Ab Follansbee