Picture an avuncular fellow on crutches, whom everybody knows as Grandpa (Lionel Barrymore). He’s at a bank, and he’s chatting with the teller, Mr. Poppins, a nervous little man who doesn’t particularly like his job. He’d much rather tinker and make ingenious gadgets. So Grandpa invites him to leave the bank and come and live at his house. At…
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