Dreaming Out Loud is a 1940 American film based on the radio series Lum and Abner, directed by Harold Young starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff.

Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody are two elderly men owning the Jot 'Em Down general store, which is the center of life in Pineridge, Arkansas.

An alcoholic, Wes Stillman, loses his daughter Effie Lou in a traffic accident, when she is hit by a passing car.

Lum and Abner try to get the doctor a mobile medical unit which would let him support his wife and her younger brother Jimmy when he arrives from his present working place in Adamstown.

Ridden by guilt, Aunt Jessica finally coughs up the money to buy Ken a mobile medical unit, so that he can save more lives.