Jenny and Tommy Hartland are jet-setting spoiled brats, heirs of a shoe manufacturing company. While vacationing in Maine, they meet John Reeves, who looks to be a poor fisherman when he is in fact a very wealthy man who...owns a shoe manufacturing company. What the Hartlands do not know is that their father and John were once best friends, until Mr. Hartland stole his girl. Jenny and Tommy also do not know that the woman married Hartland-their mother. They also do not know that their bookkeeper is doing what he can to make their business a failure so he can buy it on the cheap. They really don't care, as they seem intent in spending their inheritance in record time. Reeves sort of worms his way into their lives. He plays dumb but has a close eye on everything--the kids, their bookkeeper, as well as his own nephew back at his own company, who thinks Reeves is a doddering old fool. Reeves becomes the Hartland's guardians, mainly out of loyalty to their mother, who he loved, and their father, who was once his best friend. The kids are positive they can continue on with their partying ways...that is until John Reeves puts the kibosh on it. He saves their company, straightens the kids out, puts his own nephew firmly in place and sets everything straight by movie end.
Review of The Working Man
