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Release Date: 1942

Cast: Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Victor Francen, Ernie Adams, Tommy Cook, Jimmy Ames, Jon Hall, Gene Reynolds, Ray Mala, Jody Gilbert, Jack Carr, Peggy Drake, Curt Bois ...MORE

Cast: Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Victor Francen, Ernie Adams, Tommy Cook, Jimmy Ames, Jon Hall, Gene Reynolds, Ray Mala, Jody Gilbert, Jack Carr, Peggy Drake, Curt Bois, Leonard Sues, Florence Bates, Charles Laughton ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy

The Tuttles of Tahiti is a 1942 film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Charles Laughton and Jon Hall. It was based on the novel No More Gas by James Norman Hall. When merchant sailor Chester Tuttle (Jon Hall) returns home to Tahiti after several years away, his family, headed by Jonas Tuttle (Charles Laughton), welcomes him with open arms. The Tuttles are a happy-go-lucky bunch who give little thought to the future and do as little work as necessary. Jonas often gets loans (which he never gets around to paying back) from Dr. Blondin (Victor Francen). Chester has brought with him a... MORE

The Tuttles of Tahiti is a 1942 film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Charles Laughton and Jon Hall. It was based on the novel No More Gas by James Norman Hall. When merchant sailor Chester Tuttle (Jon Hall) returns home to Tahiti after several years away, his family, headed by Jonas Tuttle (Charles Laughton), welcomes him with open arms. The Tuttles are a happy-go-lucky bunch who give little thought to the future and do as little work as necessary. Jonas often gets loans (which he never gets around to paying back) from Dr. Blondin (Victor Francen). Chester has brought with him a fighting rooster for Jonas's cockfight with the more industrious and prosperous Emily (Florence Bates). Shrewd businessman Jensen (Curt Bois) persuades the doctor to transfer Jonas's debt to him. Jonas is so sure that Chester's rooster will win that he willingly signs a mortgage for the rundown family mansion and bets everything on the outcome. However, the bird turns out be a coward and flees the ring without a fight. Chester notices that Emily's daughter Tamara (Peggy Drake) has grown into a beautiful young woman, but the young lovers realize that Emily will never sanction Tamara's marriage to a LESS