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Don't Tell the Wife (1937)
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5 March 1937 (USA)
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A seasoned con artist and his associates discover that their scheme to get rich by selling stock in a worthless gold mine is fraught with obstacles. full summary | add synopsis
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An hour well-spent.
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(Complete credited cast) | Guy Kibbee | ... | Malcom J. 'Dinky' Winthrop |
| Una Merkel | ... | Nancy Dorsey |
| Lynne Overman | ... | Steven 'Steve' Dorsey |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Major Manning |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... | Lazarus Hubert Gregory 'Cupid' Dougal (as Guinn Williams) |
| Frank M. Thomas | ... | Insp. Mallory |
| William Demarest | ... | Larry 'Horace' Tucker |
 | Lucille Ball | ... | Ann 'Annie' Howell |
| Harry Tyler | ... | Mike Callahan |
 | George Irving | ... | Warden |
| Bradley Page | ... | Salesman Hagar |
| Si Jenks | ... | Sam Taylor (as Cy Jenks) |
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62 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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USA:Approved (PCA #2915)
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This on was a lot of fun. A reformed con man (Lynne Overman as "Steve Dorsey") gets lured back into the fraud business, having to lie to his beloved wife to do so. They're selling fake stock, and they hire a patsy, "Malcom Winthrop" to front it. He has the right name to make the deal sound sweet.
Guy Kibbee is brilliant as Winthrop, but you feel bad for the character as he is made to feel important when he is really a pawn. He tries to be helpful, but everything collapses on him. Meanwhile, the racket continues with the feds closing in.
It's interesting to note that a young Lucille Ball is in this film, but she's not yet given laughs. I wondered what if Ball had played the leading lady, "Ann Dosey"? No. It's not a funny role and Una Merkel plays it perhaps better than it merits.
It's a short movie and a few pretty good laughs.