MOVIE NAME:FISHERMAN'S WHARF STUDIO: RKO PRODUCER: SOL LESSER DIRECTOR: BERNARD VORHAUS DATE: 1939 TYPE: DOMESTIC, DRAMA WITH SONGS SONGS: "Sell Your Cares for a Song," "Songs of Italy," and "Fisherman's Chanty"
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 CAST: BOBBY BREEN as Tony Roma, LEO CARILLO as Carlon Roma, HENRY ARMETTA as Beppo, TOMMY BUPP as Rudolph, LEE PATRICK as Stella, ROSINA GALLI as Angelina, GEORGE HUMBERT as Pietro, LEON BELASCO as Luigi, SLICKER the Seal as Julius
STORY: Carlo Roma, an Italian fisherman from San Francisco, is head of a happy family composed of his adopted son Tony, his helper Beppo, their housekkeepper Angelina, and their pet seal Julius. The family's bliss is interupted when Carlo's widowed sister-in-law Stella arrives with her spoiled son Rudolph (Tommy). Stella ensnares the financially successful Carlo and then begins to alienate the others, one by one. She banishes Julius from the house and makes Beppo feel unwelcome there. She then convinces Carlo to demote his partners to paid workers. They quit and go to work on their own. Next to go is Angelina, who quits and goes off to marry Beppo. The last victim is Tony, who cruelly learns from Rudolph that he is illegitimate and that Carlo is not his father. Devistated by the news Tony runs away. Together Beppo and Carlo sail after Tony and after catching up with the boy, Carlo denounces his interlopers and begs Tony's return. As Stella and Rudolph return to Seattle, the Roma family is happily reunited.
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