17 Feb 1983
Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Panama Lady
GLAMOUR OF THE TROPICS!..THAT FADED INTO SINISTER GLITTER!
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Top Billed Cast
Lucille Ball Lucy
Allan Lane McTeague
Steffi Duna Cheema
Evelyn Brent Lenore
Donald Briggs Roy
Bernadene Hayes Pearl
Abner Biberman Elisha
William Pawley Bartender
Earle Hodgins Foreman
Lynton Brent The Masher (uncredited)
Joe Devlin Joe - New York Bartender (uncredited)
Joe Dominguez Jose - the Waiter (uncredited)
Billy Franey Drunk (uncredited)
Martín Garralaga Panama Policeman (uncredited)
Julian Rivero Main Gun Smuggler (uncredited)
Mickey Simpson Rodrigo (uncredited)
Larry Steers Cantina Table Extra (uncredited)
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