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User Rating:
4.9/10   28 votes
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Director:
William C. McGann
Writers:
Sig Herzig (screenplay) &
Pat C. Flick (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
13 July 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
LOOK OUT BELOW! WE'RE LETTING 'EM GO! The Bughouse Wouldn't Keep 'Em...So We Put 'Em In This Show!.
Plot:
The offices of a great newspaper syndicate are presided over by John B. Radway (Hugh Herbert), obviously a nut... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
A supposed screwball comedy, but very contrived and not very funny. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Mary Boland ... Ollie Radway
Frank McHugh ... David 'Party' Partridge

Hugh Herbert ... John B. Radway
Carol Hughes ... Virginia Radway
Allen Jenkins ... Specs
Mischa Auer ... Dimitri Kyeff
Alan Mowbray ... Dr. Hayden Stryker
Hugh O'Connell ... Michael 'Mike' Forrester
Teddy Hart ... Biff
Tom Kennedy ... Jasper
Dewey Robinson ... Buster
Arthur Aylesworth ... Third Southerner
Olin Howland ... First Southerner
William B. Davidson ... Drake (as William Davidson)
Charles Judels ... Andre Victor Antoine Descate
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Additional Details

Runtime:
68 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3034)

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
A supposed screwball comedy, but very contrived and not very funny., 7 February 2000
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Author: Arthur Hausner (genart@volcano.net) from Pine Grove, California

Hugh Herbert and sister Mary Boland own and run a firm which supplies syndicated items to newspapers, but it's hard to understand how they ever got into that position. Herbert plays it as dumb as can be, and woo-woos you to death in a type of humor I never could stand. And Mary Boland is a bit dizzy herself, as is Carol Hughes, another member of the family. The movie is filled with gangsters, nutty people in a sanitarium, a love triangle, a mad Russian artist in Mischa Auer, etc., but it never really catches on. About the only gag that made me laugh had Frank McHugh shooting a gun into a painting of peaceful ducks on a lake, and seeing the ducks fly away. Almost a total waste of time.

Movies were made so fast and cheap in those days that errors were inevitable. Teddy Hart is billed as "Bill" in the end credits, but he's called only "Biff" in the movie. And the sanitarium had a sign on a brick wall announcing it was a "sanatarium."

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