Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)

Five Little Peppers in Trouble is a 1940 American black and white comedy-drama film, directed by Charles Barton and produced by Jack Fier. It was the fourth and final film in the Five Little Peppers series.

Plot

Jasper's aunt plans to take Jasper to live with her, thinking that he's not being properly taken care of by his grandfather, Mr. King. King enrolls Jasper and the five Peppers in a private school, where they are teased by the other children.

Cast

Edith Fellows as Polly Pepper

Charles Peck as Ben Pepper

Tommy Bond as Joey Pepper

Bobby Larson as Davie Pepper

Dorothy Ann Seese as Phronsie Pepper

Pierre Watkin as Mr. King

Ronald Sinclair as Jasper

Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Pepper

Rex Evans as Martin

Kathleen Howard as Mrs. Wilcox

Mary Currier as Mrs. Lansdowne

Helen Brown as Miss Roland

Betty Jane Graham as May

Shirley Mills as June

Shirley Jean Rickert as Kiki

Antonia Oland as Pam

Rita Quigley as Peggy

Ann Barlow as Cynthia

Don Beddoe and George McKay as Process Servers

Sue Ann Burnett as Madeline

Robert Carson as Jim

Bess Flowers as Miss Roberts

Carlton Griffin as Mr. Barnes

Eddie Laughton as Miss Wilcox's chauffeur

Billy Lechner as Tom

Judy Lynn as Betty

Freddie Mercer as Tim

Beverly Michaelson as Dorothy

Ruth Robinson as Miss Simpson

Reginald Simpson as Mr. Gorman

Reception

In Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years, Gene Blottner writes that the Five Little Peppers series ended "because, quite frankly, the screenplays were so saccharin that even the talented Edith Fellows couldn't save them."

See also

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Five Little Peppers at Home

Out West with the Peppers

References

External links

Five Little Peppers in Trouble at IMDb