"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather ...
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| Lee Tracy | ... | Chick Thompson | |
| Sally Eilers | ... | Daisy | |
| Jimmy Durante | ... | Fingers | |
| Florence Rice | ... | Miss Holbrook | |
| Thomas E. Jackson | ... | Mac (as Thomas Jackson) | |
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Dickie Walters | ... | Poochy (as John Richard Walters) |
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"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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While other people slept, they were hell-bent for another town...knowing only one law - slug or be slugged...a new adventure every hour...robbery...murder, free for all, were the diet they lived on!....... See more »Parents Guide:
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15 February 1935 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Worlds Fair See more »Filming Locations:
Mack Sennett Studios - 1712 Glendale Blvd., Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Technically, this is a comedy (happy ending, funny dialogue), but it's a pretty soggy one. Lee Tracy, the screen's peerless impersonator of fast-talking, wisecracking flim-flam men, is Chick, a carny showman whose wife dies in childbirth and whose anxieties about bringing up baby expose us to lots of lectures about bottles and thermometers. Jimmy Durante, whose talent is for demolishing order and breaking up the joint, assists Tracy in baby care, helping him put up a front of respectability for the baby-snatchers from the Children's Society. These harpies pursue Tracy with such assiduity over the years you would think his name was Chick Valjean.
Chick learns that a wife would make him genuinely respectable, but his worries prevent him seeing that sweet Sally Eilers, who is besotted with both him and his baby, is the one for him. The performers are all appealing, and the baby isn't too hard to take, but the script is pretty lame, and the whole enterprise feels damped down by the enforced pathos and the submission of the two comics' raucous personalities to these nice-guy parts.