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6.5/10   147 votes
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Ward Morehouse (play)
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Release Date:
18 September 1932 (USA) more
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Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Joan Blondell ... Vida Fleet
Eric Linden ... Bud Reeves
Jobyna Howland ... Mrs. Serena Cartlich
Ned Sparks ... Mr. 'Stacky' Stackhouse
Guy Kibbee ... Hummell, the House Detective
Grant Mitchell ... Station Agent
Walter Catlett ... Cousin 'Gibby' Gibboney
Inez Courtney ... Faun
Thomas E. Jackson ... Detective Quelkin (as Thomas Jackson)
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63 min
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The play, "New York Town" was copyrighted in 1932, but had no known performances. more
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Featured in Bacall on Bogart (1988) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
My Baby Just Cares for Me more

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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Early Effort by Some Future Stars, 15 June 2001
6/10
Author: Todd Honig from Hollywood, California

This comedy/drama from the olden days has quite a bit to recommend it.Young rube from Indiana moves to New York City,loses all his money,falls in love with a chorus girl(Joan Blondell),and attends a wild hotel party where the bathtub gin is flowing freely,all in the space of about 48 hours!Some interesting cinematography and that great 30's rapid-fire dialogue which seems to be a lost art these days.Joan Blondell has a very funny scene at a speakeasy craps table.Humphrey Bogart,who was still a starving actor himself at the time,appears briefly in an uncredited role,and as in most of his early roles,has that one moment of unleashed anger that served him so well in later years.Lots of fun.

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