Follow Me, Boys!

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Follow Me, Boys! is a 1966 family movie released through Walt Disney Pictures, based on the book God and My Country by MacKinlay Kantor. The film starred Fred MacMurray and Vera Miles, was co-produced by Walt Disney and Winston Hibler, directed by Norman Tokar, and written by Louis Pelletier. It is one of the few movies where Boy Scouts are key to the film and is Disney's paean to the Boy Scouts. The film is also known as On My Honor, which was its working title. This is the first of ten Disney films which Kurt Russell would appear in over the next ten years. A DVD version was released on February 3, 2004.

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Contents

1 Plot
2 Selected cast
3 References
4 External links

Plot

After one year too many on the road with a ramshackle jazz band, Lem Siddons (MacMurray) decides to put down roots in Hickory, a small Midwestern town by taking a job in a general store. With the dual purpose of impressing bank teller Vida Downey (Miles) and instilling values in the local boys and keep them out of trouble, Siddons starts a local Boy Scout troop, which sets him on a lifelong roller-coaster ride as a Scoutmaster to a steady stream of high-spirited youngsters. Siddons soon marries local sweetheart Downey and finds the two loves of his life: Downey and Scouting.

Selected cast

Fred MacMurray - Lemuel "Lem" Siddons
Vera Miles - Vida Downey
Lillian Gish - Hetty Seibert
Charlie Ruggles - John Everett Hughes
Kurt Russell - Whitey
Luana Patten - Nora White
Ken Murray - Melody Murphy
Parley Baer - Mayor Hi Plommer
William Reynolds - Hoodoo Henderson as a Man
Madge Blake - Cora Anderson
Keith Taylor - Beefy Smith
David Bailey - Duke
Jimmy Murphy - P.O.W. Soldier
Adam Williams - P.O.W. Sergeant
John Larroquette as Army soldier in war games

References

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External links

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