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...| Status: | Released (1934-11-30) |
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| Awards: | 1 nomination |
| Screen: | Robert Riskin, Mark Hellinger, Sidney Buchman |
| Productions: | Columbia Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Français, Español |
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- 29999: Warner Baxter - Dan Brooks
- 13577: Myrna Loy - Alice 'Princess' Higgins
- 30156: Walter Connolly - J.L. Higgins
- 99349: Helen Vinson - Margaret
- 34748: Douglass Dumbrille - Eddie Morgan
- 89673: Raymond Walburn - Colonel Pettigrew
- 102064: Lynne Overman - Happy McGuire
Crews
- 19019: Robert Riskin - Screenplay - Writing
- 86186: Mark Hellinger - Story - Writing
- 2662: Frank Capra - Director - Directing
- 17761: Joseph Walker - Director of Photography - Camera
- 34225: Robert Kalloch - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 2662: Frank Capra - Producer - Production
- 29276: Howard Jackson - Original Music Composer - Sound
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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 ....
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