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Chevy Chase
Andy Farmer

Madolyn Smith Osborne
Elizabeth Farmer

Kevin O'Morrison
Sheriff Ledbetter

Joseph Maher
Michael Sinclair

Jack Gilpin
Bud Culbertson
Caris Corfman
Betsy Culbertson
William Severs
Newspaper Editor

Mike Starr
Crocker

Glenn Plummer
Mickey

William Duell
Old Character

Helen Lloyd Breed
Old Operator
Kit Le Fever
Young Operator (as Kit Le Fevre)

Dakin Matthews
Marion Corey Jr.

William Newman
Gus Lotterhand

Alice Drummond
Mrs. Ethel Dinges

Kevin Conway
Crum Petree (uncredited)

Bill Fagerbakke
Lon Criterion

Nicholas Wyman
Dirk Criterion

Brad Sullivan
Brock

Nesbitt Blaisdell
Hank
George Roy Hill
Jeffrey Boam
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