The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert, is a 1950 comedy family film, produced by George Pal, directed by Irving Pichel and starring Jimmy Durante, Tom Drake and Terry Moore. It is based on a story, written by Ted Allan, which has also been published as a childrens book under the title Willie the Squowse.

Rosalinda Amendola, the daughter of happy but impoverished former acrobats is in love with the boy next door, aspiring composer Pete Dingle. Though Petes parents are wealthy, his miserly father Frank insists on hiding his money from his investments in the wall of their family home.The situation changes when Joe Mahoney, a vaudeville performer has fallen on hard times and has to leave his best friend and stage companion, Rupert a dancing squirrel, in Frank and Rosalindas town where he will have to fend for himself with the other squirrels and live in a tree. Unsatisfied with tree life, Rupert gains access to the Dingle home and unbeknownst to Frank, has his bed in Franks hidden cache of money. Rupert decides to clear room in his domicile by throwing Franks money through a hole so that it floats down into the Amendola household who think the money has come from Heaven in answer to Mrs Amendolas prayers. ........

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