San Diego, I Love You

San Diego, I Love You is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton and Edward Everett Horton.^[1]

Synopsis

Philip McCooley, a widowed high school teacher in small-town California, believes that he has discovered a new self-inflating life raft. He is persuaded by his elder daughter Virginia to travel to San Diego to apply for funds from a developmental agency, and takes his four young sons along as well. On the train journey they encounter and offend John Thompson Caldwell IV by taking his compartment, little realizing that he is extremely wealthy and the head of the agency that the McCooley's need the support of. With their last savings, the family buy a house in the city, which comes with an unusual butler and a very confused lodger.

After Caldwell dismisses McCooley's invention, his daughter forces herself into his company to convince him otherwise. Although at first he resists her approaches, they gradually fall in love as they both come to appreciate the attractions of San Diego. Caldwell is persuaded to give the invention a second look. While McCooley's life raft ultimately proves to be both useless and dangerous, he has unwittingly invented a very destructive explosive which can be used by the War Department.

Buster Keaton appears in an extended cameo role as a bus driver who is persuaded by the heroine to abandon his usual route and drive along the beach.

Cast

• Jon Hall as John Thompson Caldwell IV
• Louise Allbritton as Virginia McCooley
• Edward Everett Horton as Philip McCooley
• Eric Blore as Nelson, the Butler
• Buster Keaton as Bus Driver
• Irene Ryan as Sheila Jones
• Rudy Wissler as Walter McCooley
• Peter Miles as Joel McCooley
• Charles Bates as Larry McCooley
• Donald Davis as Pete McCooley
• Florence Lake as Miss Lake
• Chester Clute as Percy Caldwell
• Sarah Selby as Mrs. Lovelace
• Fern Emmett as Mrs. Callope
• Harry Barris as Clarinetist
• Leon Belasco as Violinist
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Mr. McGregor
• William B. Davidson as General
• Vernon Dent as Mr. Fitzmaurice
• Eddie Dunn as Stevedore
• Mabel Forrest as Mrs. Fresher
• John Gannon as Soldier
• Edward Gargan as Policeman
• Victoria Horne as Mrs. Allsop
• Esther Howard as Mother
• Teddy Infuhr as Brat
• Tom Keene as Reporter
• George Lloyd as Moving Man
• Matt McHugh as Man on Street
• George Meader as Mr. Applewaite
• Clarence Muse as Porter
• Sarah Padden as Mrs. Gulliver
• Jack Rice as Hotel Clerk
• Dewey Robinson as Stevedore
• Gene Roth as Stevedore
• Almira Sessions as Mrs. Mainwaring
• Jerry Shane as Sailor
• Harry Tyler as Mr. Carruthers
• Jan Wiley as Receptionist

References

Bibliography

• Robert McLaughlin. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

External links

• San Diego, I Love You at the Internet Movie Database
• Film review at Variety