Home in San Antone

Home in San Antone

★ 7.0IMDb Score
Released:1949-04-14
Duration:62 min
Director:Ray Nazarro
Actors:Roy Acuff, Doye O'Dell, Lyn Thomas, Bill Edwards, George Cleveland
Production:Columbia Pictures

Overview:

Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.

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