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.
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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."