Five Little Peppers at Home

Five Little Peppers at Home is a 1940 American drama black and white film. It is the second Five Little Peppers film.

Plot

The copper mine co-owned by Polly and Mr. King has not yielded any copper, and the stress has left King bedridden. Polly learns that King's valet Martin is knowledgeable in geology, and Polly and her siblings bring Martin to the mine to look for a copper vein. Ben accidentally causes a cave-in, trapping his sisters and brothers.

Cast

Edith Fellows as Polly Pepper
Charles Peck as Ben Pepper
Tommy Bond as Joey Pepper
Bobby Larson as Davie Pepper
Dorothy Anne Seese as Phronsie Pepper
Clarence Kolb as Mr. King
Ronald Sinclair as Jasper
Rex Evans as Martin
Herbert Rawlinson as Mr. Decker
Laura Treadwell as Aunt Martha

Reception

On March 6, 1940, Variety wrote, "More fatal about the second Pepper story is its tediousness and with one or two exceptions, the dullness of the characters. Weak."