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THEY PUT A NEW HIGH IN HILARITY!
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Jack Benny Ted Healy Una Merkel Nat Pendleton Mary Carlisle Grant Mitchell Harvey Stephens Charles Trowbridge Johnny Arthur Al Shean Purnell Pratt Phillips Smalley Howard Hickman Larry Wheat Richard Kipling Jim Toney Maude Allen Clarence Wilson Jean Acker Ernie Adams Stanley Andrews Herbert Ashley Gertrude Astor Polly Bailey Don Brodie Tyler Brooke Francis X. Bushman Jr. Jack Byron George Chandler Claudia Coleman James Conaty Billy Dooley Jay Eaton Sarah Edwards Harold Entwistle Robert Gordon Jean Gunn Sherry Hall Ben Hendricks Jr. Sheldon Jett Isabelle Keith Frank Marlowe Addie McPhail Harold Miller Ivan Miller John "Skins" Miller Edmund Mortimer Louis Natheaux Broderick O'Farrell Dennis O'Keefe Milton Owen Lee Phelps Richard Powell Dean Riesner Cyril Ring Ronald R. Rondell Shirley Ross Matty Roubert Margaret Seddon Eddie Tamblyn Jim Thorpe Richard Tucker Dale Van Sickel Harry Lee
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