I've Got Your Number (1934)

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Director:

Ray Enright

Writers:

William Rankin (story), Warren Duff (screenplay),

Stars:

Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Joan Blondell	...	Marie Lawson
Pat O'Brien	...	Terry Riley
Allen Jenkins	...	John 'Johnny'
Glenda Farrell	...	Bonnie, aka Madame Francis
Eugene Pallette	...	Joseph 'Joe' Flood
Gordon Westcott	...	Nicky
Henry O'Neill	...	Mr. John P. Schuyler
Hobart Cavanaugh	...	Happy Dooley
Renee Whitney	...	Loretta Kennedy
Wallis Clark	...	Mr. Madison
Robert Ellis	...	Turk Garrison
Douglas Cosgrove	...	Detective Turner
Selmer Jackson	...	Joe, a Gangster (as Selmar Jackson)
Louise Beavers	...	Crystal
Henry Kolker	...	Lawyer Robert Kirkland

Storyline

The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently does a favor for gangster Nicky. Terry gets Marie a job with financier Schuyler; but Nicky has new plans for her.

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Plot Keywords:

hotel | drunkenness | fire | rescue | practical joke | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 February 1934 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mystiriodes tilefonima

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

69 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The ending, with Joan Blondell in bed, was filmed in her home. She was recovering from an emergency appendectomy and her doctor would not let her travel to the studio.

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Connections

Featured in American Masters: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)

User Reviews

The trials and tribulations of a telephone repair man

Watching this, if you didn't know, you would think that a telephone repair man back in the day could do anything. That's what makes this film so laughable.

A tops in his field telephone repair man goes throughout his workday solving telephone related problems. Along the way he tries his suave ways on the lady clients he meets. In the midst of all this he meets a girl who finally falls for his lame charms. She in turn gets unwittingly involved with a scumbag who uses her to rob her boss of some bonds. Then...telephone repair man to the rescue.

Words can't describe how lame this film is. Pat O'Brian didn't have much range as an actor and it shows in this. There are so many laughable moments I can only mention a few cause it would ruin for anyone who wants to watch this lame time piece.

First off, what telephone repair man has the skills to cut any kind of live electrical wires? One scene has a building burning and for some reason they need him to get to the top of a burning building and cut telephone wires. Who knows what purpose this serves but in the process he decides there are live electrical wires and he just takes some pliers/snips and cuts them. This is beyond ridiculous. Not gonna happen folks unless he intended to make himself a charcoal briquette in the process.. After this he jumps off the building and lands in a fireman's net to safety. With this act he's the king of the day. LOL..what a joke.

The funniest of all is the end fight scene. It could very well be the worst fight scene in film history. To set up this fight I'll start off with..they kidnap the repair man and are dragging him back to their car to leave and the whole of the telephone repairmen from the company come to his rescue. Mind you, all these crooks trying to take him away are all armed. When the repairmen arrive and decide to try and save him, all these crooks just run at em like it was WWI. I mean, these guys have guns and they decide to fight? Gimme a break. The fighting in this is so funny it's worth watching just for that. It's so bad you'll spit up you soda and chips while watching it. I will say this was an early 30's film so they hadn't gotten the realistic look of fighting by then but if your a filmmaker and want to do a film with fighting, watch this and see what not to do.

For me, this was a real joke of a film. Not even funny or believable at any point. Bad script, stupid premise and 65 minutes of my life I'll never get back.