The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Warner Baxter Myrna Loy Walter Connolly Helen Vinson Douglass Dumbrille Raymond Walburn Lynne Overman Clarence Muse Broadway Bill Margaret Hamilton Frankie Darro George Cooper George Meeker Jason Robards Sr. Ed Tucker Edmund Breese Clara Blandick Irving Bacon Lucille Ball Stanley Blystone Ward Bond Sidney Bracey Harry C. Bradley Heinie Conklin Gino Corrado Inez Courtney Kernan Cripps Helen Flint Sam Flint Christian J. Frank Gladys Gale Alan Hale Forrester Harvey Paul Harvey Frank Holliday Alfred P. James Charles Lane Robert McKenzie John Merton Charles Middleton Helene Millard Bert Moorhouse Louis Natheaux Frank O'Connor Dennis O'Keefe Harry Semels Skeeter Joan Standing Emmett Vogan Fred Walton Ethel Bryant
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