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Earthworm Tractors (1936)

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User Rating: 6.5/10 (100 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Ray Enright
Writers:
Hugh Cummings (writer)
Richard Macaulay (writer)
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Release Date:
17 December 1936 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Very Good 30's-Style Comedy more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Joe E. Brown ... Alexander Botts
June Travis ... Mabel Johnson
Guy Kibbee ... Sam Johnson
Dick Foran ... Emmet McManus (as Nick Foran)
Carol Hughes ... Sally Blair

Gene Lockhart ... George Healey
Olin Howland ... Mr. Blair
Joseph Crehan ... Mr. Henderson
Charles C. Wilson ... H.J. Russell (as Charles Wilson)
William B. Davidson ... Mr. Jackson (as William Davidson)
Irving Bacon ... Taxicab Driver
Stuart Holmes ... The Doctor
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Rosalind Marquis ... Telephone Girl
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Natural Born Salesman (UK)
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Runtime:
69 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | Finland:S
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Trivia:
Actress Sarah Edwards, while listed in preview credits and shown in at least one still from "Earthworm Tractors" as Mrs. Blair, was cut from final release prints. She is probably best known for her role as Mrs. Hatch in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Alexander first meets Mabel, her stuck car gets mud all over his clothes. He ties a rope to a taxi to pull her car. As soon as he gets into the taxi, the mud is gone from his clothes. more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Very Good 30's-Style Comedy, 3 July 2001
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

"Earthworm Tractors" is a very good 30's-style comedy, with pleasantly silly main characters and a story designed to set up some good comic sequences. It's the kind of movie that can easily come out badly if not done with some skill, but this one is done nicely and it works.

Joe E. Brown plays Alexander Botts, a self-described born salesman and master mechanic, whose real talent is for getting in over his head. His attempts to make a big sale of tractors to grumpy, old-fashioned lumberman Johnson (Guy Kibbee) lead him into one disaster after another. Much of it is stock humor, but it is pleasantly done, and there are some particularly funny sequences of the tractor rampaging out of control. Kibbee and Brown are both good, giving deliberately exaggerated performances that work well. It's mostly a two-man show, but the rest of the cast does well when called on.

Anyone who likes comedies of the era should enjoy this film. It's very pleasant, and at times is hilarious.

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