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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 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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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...
Cast & crew
Warner BaxterDan Brooks
Myrna LoyAlice 'Princess' Higgins
Walter ConnollyJ.L. Higgins
Helen VinsonMargaret
Douglass DumbrilleEddie Morgan
Raymond WalburnColonel Pettigrew
Lynne OvermanHappy McGuire
Clarence MuseWhitey
Margaret Hamilton
Frankie DarroTed Williams
George CooperExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Robert Riskin
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Walker
- Producer
- Frank Capra
- Original Music Composer
- Howard Jackson
- Producer
- Harry Cohn
- Editor
- Gene Havlick