Mr. Boggs Steps Out is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Gordon Wiles.

The film is based on the Clarence Budington Kelland Saturday Evening Post short story Face the Facts.

[1] Government statistician Oliver Boggs wins a large monetary prize from a cinema for correctly guessing the amount of beans in a barrel.

His elder business associate advises him to leave his dead end depressing job and do something rewarding.

When the pair's boss abuses the elder man, Boggs quits and decides to purchase a barrel manufacturing company in a small town.