Free for All

Free for All is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Robert Cummings, Ann Blyth and Percy Kilbride. Synopsis A young man invents a pill that can turn water into gasoline. While staying in Washington to register his patent, he falls in love with his host's daughter. However, she works for a major oil company and after she lets slip to her employers about the magical new formula, they desperately try to get their hands on it. Main cast Robert Cummings as Christopher Parker Ann Blyth as Alva Abbott Percy Kilbride as Henry J. Abbott Ray Collins as A.B. Blair Donald Woods as Roger Abernathy Mikhail Rasumny as Dr. Axel Torgelson Percy Helton as Joe Hershey Harry Antrim as Mr. Whiting Wallis Clark as Mr. Van Alstyne Frank Ferguson as Hap Ross Dooley Wilson as Aristotle Russell Simpson as Farmer Lester Matthews as Mr. Aberson Murray Alper as McGuinness Bill Walker as Herbert Kenneth Tobey as Pilot Harris Brown as Colonel Willard Waterman as Commander H.C. Christie Production The film was based on a story by Herbert Clyde Lewis called Patent Applied For. In August 1947 Universal announced they had purchased the story and it would be the first film made by producer-writer Robert Buckner under Buckner's new contract with the studio.