The Bashful Bachelor
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
The Bashful Bachelor is a 1942 American film directed by Malcolm St. Clair. It was the second film in the Lum and Abner film series.
Plot
Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse. And because Lum doesn’t have the guts to grab the woman he is in love with, Geraldine (ZaSu Pitts), and propose to once and for all, he lays a complex scheme to impress her in a fake “rescue” mission. He fails tremendously in this mission, and nearly gets everyone killed in doing so. However, he doesn’t give up, but tries again, and finally succeeds in impressing her. His problems aren’t over though, since his proposal, who was to be delivered to Geraldine by his partner Abner, ends up in the wrong hands when it is delivered to a very prone bachelorette, Widder Abernathy (Constance Purdy) instead. She jumps at the possibility of marrying Lum, and the game is afoot. Lum doesn’t get out of trouble until the town sheriff (Irving Bacon) finds widow Widder’s disappeared husband.
Cast
Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards
Norris Goff as Abner Peabody
ZaSu Pitts as Geraldine
Grady Sutton as Cedric Wiehunt
Oscar O’Shea as Squire Skimp
Louise Currie as Marjorie
Constance Purdy as Widder Abernathy
Irving Bacon as Sheriff / Fire Chief
Earle Hodgins as Joseph Abernathy
Benny Rubin as Pitch Man
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