I Sell Anything (1934)

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Director:

Robert Florey

Writers:

Brown Holmes (screen play), Sidney Sutherland (screen play),

Stars:

Pat O'Brien, Ann Dvorak, Claire Dodd

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Pat O'Brien	...	Spot Cash Cutler
Ann Dvorak	...	Barbara
Claire Dodd	...	Millicent
Roscoe Karns	...	Monk
Hobart Cavanaugh	...	Stooge
Russell Hopton	...	'Smiley'
Robert Barrat	...	McPherson
Harry Tyler	...	Second Stooge
Gus Shy	...	Third Stooge
Leonard Carey	...	Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
Ferdinand Gottschalk	...	Barouche
Clay Clement	...	Peter Van Gruen

Storyline

Fast-talking auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is content with his Second Avenue existence selling pawned goods for highly inflated prices. One day, a Fifth Avenue society lady picks up a priceless belt buckle for a song at Cutler's shop. Cutler tries to get his cut of the true price, but she makes a counter-offer of an expensive auction house and a scheme to auction off a house full of fake antiques.

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Plot Keywords:

auction | antique | buckle | museum | racket | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 October 1934 (USA)

Also Known As:

I Sell Everything

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

First National Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

70 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"A Bird in a Gilded Cage"
(1900) (uncredited)
Music by Harry von Tilzer
Lyrics by Arthur J. Lamb
Sung by entertainers in the beer garden

User Reviews

Fun Plus A Bit Of New York History

Pat O'Brien plays the character who boasts the tile slogan. He is an auctioneer. He isn't really a criminal but he's not on the up and up, either. Interestingly, he isn't in a small town at a carnival. These auctions are taking in suckers in Manhattan. He's on Second Avenue! Wow, how it has changed since those days! I like O'Brien a lot, in his comic and his serious roles. I have to say that here, though, Lee Tracy could have run circles around him. In some ways this is a post-Code, urban "Half Naked Truth." Ann Dvorak is another major favorite of mine. I would watch virtually, maybe literally, anything she's in just to see her. Here she is kind of wasted: We first see her when she'd down on her luck -- homeless and without funds. I won't give anything away but let's just say that's not totally the way her character ends up.

Claire Dodd is also good. She plays a woman from farther East -- Fifth Avenue -- who takes O'Brien down the garden path.

It's a highly entertaining movie, though not by any means a great one.