Desc: The Billion Dollar Hobo: Directed by Stuart E. McGowan. With Tim Conway, Al Stellone, Ellen Gerstein, Jerry Toomey. Vernon Praiseworthy is a clumsy but lovable dope who stands to inherit his uncle's fortune. The condition is that he travel the rails as a penniless hobo just as his uncle did in the dark days of the depression. That seems simple enough until he gets involved in a dog-napping plot.