Shepherd of the Ozarks (1942)

Aluminum magnate James J Maloney Sr meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end pricefixing After the meeting Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy a playboy turned Army flight instructor is lost with his navigator Scully somewhere in the Ozarks While Maloney rushes to find his son Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville where the mayor and his wife Abner and Elviry Weaver are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city