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6.5/10   46 votes
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Writers:
Joseph Kesselring (play)
Humphrey Pearson (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
3 November 1933 (USA) more
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Winning Depression Era Romantic Comedy more (4 total)

Cast

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Charles Farrell ... Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump, aka Red Branahan
Wynne Gibson ... Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
William Gargan ... Red Branahan
Zasu Pitts ... Sybby 'Sib'
Betty Furness ... Evangeline
Blanche Friderici ... Aunt Katherine
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cupid in the Rough (UK)
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Runtime:
73 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Fun Stuff

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The play was copyrighted on 3 December 1932, but had no Broadway performances. more
Soundtrack:
Give My Regards to Broadway more

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Winning Depression Era Romantic Comedy, 24 June 2002
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Author: Thalberg from United States

The Depression era comes alive in this film about a waitress (Wynne Gibson) who falls in love with a street-fighting hoodlum, Red Branagan (William Gargan). When Branagan goes to prison for beating up some cops, Aggie is left broke and on her own, eventually meeting Adoniram Schlump (Charles Farrell), a rich sissy from Upstate trying to make it in the big city. Under Aggie's tutelage, Schlump takes on Branagan's identity and his combativeness. Then the real Branagan gets out of prison....

Gibson and Gargan are particularly good as a couple of tough New Yorkers struggling to make ends meet, and Farrell (reminiscent here of Harold Lloyd, whom he slightly resembled) comes alive as a neurotic rich boy who finds success as a brawler. The film's use of slang is especially entertaining -- dated, but colorful. (Aggie tells Schlump: "Stop talking like a lollipop. Use some words with hair on them.")

Can't help wondering whether the film's clever title would have been possible a year or two later, with the coming of the Production Code.

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