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6.0/10   75 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Lord (story)
Peter Milne (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 March 1936 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
JACK OAKIE Starts Swinging...JOAN BLONDELL Starts Trucking... more
Plot:
The Ames Company makes every effort to keep Uncle Cedric away from any decisions or work. This is in the best interests for him and the company... more | add synopsis
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A disaster! more (6 total)

Cast

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Dick Powell ... Donald Ames 3rd
Ruby Keeler ... Colleen Reilly
Jack Oakie ... Joe Cork
Joan Blondell ... Minnie Hawkins

Hugh Herbert ... Uncle Cedric Ames
Louise Fazenda ... Aunt Alicia Ames
Paul Draper ... Paul Gordon
Marie Wilson ... Mabel
Luis Alberni ... Carlo
Hobart Cavanaugh ... Noggin
Berton Churchill ... Mr. Logan
J.M. Kerrigan ... Pop Reilly
Addison Richards ... Mr. Schuyler
Charles Coleman ... Beech, Alicia's butler
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Additional Details

Runtime:
89 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (PCA #1782)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The running time at a press preview was 100 minutes, but it was cut to 89 minutes before release. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Six Hits and a Miss (1942) more
Soundtrack:
An Evening with You more

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2 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
A disaster!, 19 July 2002
4/10
Author: raskimono

I cannot find much to say about this movie. For a supposedly WB event Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler, it is very cheap looking as if all the money went into extravagant looking Bubsy Berkeley inspired number that is dull. Worse of all, it is not funny and the songwriting fail to deliver one memorable song (they all sound the same; heck they seem as though they were recycled from other Dick powell hits). This was the end of Dick powell, once this movie seriously underperformed. (I don't know if it bombed). The plot - what there is of it - has Uncle Cedric who is pulled in by a golddigger,Joan Blondell and is taken away from the focus of his business, by the golddigger who uses sex -it's implied - to make her a daughter and thus an inheritor. Dick Powell is the one brought in to look over the business and falls for his Uncle's secretary, Ruby Keeler -Dick and Ruby were married at the time - and snoop out the golddiggers. His relationship with this lower class girll who is also an upcoming fashion designer creates a scandal and you can figure out the rest. This film contains a lot of bad crooning and extremely ineffeciently displaying of ugly tap dancing. Dick Powell is much better in Hollywood Hotel. But avoid Cowboy in Brooklyn and Going places. It wouldn't be long before Dickie's contract was not renewed an d he left WB.

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