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30/11/1934 Comedy, Drama 1h 44m
60
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The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'

Overview

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 bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

  1. Frank Capra

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Warner Baxter

    Dan Brooks

  2. Myrna Loy

    Alice 'Princess' Higgins

  3. Walter Connolly

    J.L. Higgins

  4. Helen Vinson

    Margaret

  5. Douglass Dumbrille

    Eddie Morgan

  6. Raymond Walburn

    Colonel Pettigrew

  7. Lynne Overman

    Happy McGuire

  8. Clarence Muse

    Whitey

  9. Broadway Bill

    Broadway Bill - a Horse

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-01-07
At a family dinner, patriarch "Higgins" (Walter Connolly) - who has his name on practically everything - is bemoaning the failures of his cardboard box division. That's run by son-in-law "Dan" (Warner Baxter) but he's bored witless by the whole operation and decides he wants to quit and focus on his eponymous racehorse. He quickly discovers that owning an horse is a pricey occupation, and without a job or family money he is soon borrowing from anyone he can to keep the thing on four legs. It's first outing at the track is an unmitigated disaster, followed by a spell in jail for not paying his ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$668,900.00

Revenue
$1,400,000.00

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