Two Weeks to Live (1943): Cast & Plot

Abner Peabody, Norris Goff, runs the Jot ’Em Down general store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas with a steady pride that masks a string of small-town struggles. When he unexpectedly inherits railroad stock from his Uncle Ernest, he suddenly becomes the sole owner of what he believes to be the Chicago and Ohio Railroad, a prospect that fills him with cautious optimism. His enthusiastic store partner, Lum Edwards, Chester Lauck, leaps at the chance to turn this windfall into something bigger. Lum hatches a bold plan: sell off chunks of the stock to the town’s residents to raise capital, enough to claim the land where the railway sits and to secure control of the surrounding area.