Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Lee Tracy Madge Evans Frank Morgan Charles Butterworth John Miljan Virginia Cherrill David Landau Greta Meyer Herman Bing Samuel S. Hinds Syd Saylor Stanley Blystone Ed Brady Allan Cavan Clay Clement Edgar Dearing James Donlan Robert Homans John Kelly Lew Kelly Tom London Tom Mahoney James C. Morton Nat Pendleton Lee Phelps Rolfe Sedan Guy Usher Dorothy Vernon Charles Williams
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