Directed by:
Edward SedgwickScreenplay:
Carey WilsonCinematography:
Harold WenstromCast:
Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates, John Miljan, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, Rolfe Sedan, Harry Tenbrook, Sherry Hall, Wilbur Mack, Billy Engle (more)Plots(1)
Two of comedy's greatest masters - Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante - appear together in this effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim-bulb taxidermist buddy, into spending his life's savings on a brewery. Determined to be first, they start making beer before Prohibition is actually over. That makes their "competition" bootlegging thugs - something they didn't count on! Then, Buster falls for one of the gangster's molls, the cops get into the act, and Keaton and Durante have to figure out how to get out of the beer business before they're done in! From a story by Robert E. Hopkins (Anita Loo's screenwriting partner on San Francisco), this timely farce, directed by veteran Edward Sedgwick, was called "one solid riot of laughs...Rowdy and hoodlum fun" (The New York American). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Buster Keaton
USA
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Limelight (1952)
Jimmy Durante
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
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Roscoe Ates
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
City Girl (1930)
Freaks (1932)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
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Samson and Delilah (1949)
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Henry Armetta
Italy
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Scarface (1932)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Edward Brophy
USA
Best movies:
The Cameraman (1928)
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Dumbo (1941)
Rolfe Sedan
USA
Best movies:
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Flesh and the Devil (1926)
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Harry Tenbrook
Norway
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Sherry Hall
USA
Best movies:
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Wilbur Mack
USA
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Billy Engle
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Sidney Bracey
Australia
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
The Cameraman (1928)
Freaks (1932)
Eddy Chandler
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
George Irving
USA
Best movies:
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
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Broderick O'Farrell
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
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Lee Phelps
USA
Best movies:
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James Donlan
USA
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Test Pilot (1938)
Design for Living (1933)
Pat Harmon
USA
Best movies:
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Charles Giblyn
USA
Best movies:
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