What! No Beer? (1933)
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
- Date of release
- 1933-02-10
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Edward Sedgwick
Casting
- Buster Keaton — Elmer J. Butts
- Jimmy Durante — Jimmy Potts
- Roscoe Ates — Schultz
- Phyllis Barry — Hortense
- John Miljan — Butch Lorado
- Henry Armetta — Tony
- Edward Brophy — Spike Moran
- Charles Dunbar — Mulligan
- Charles Giblyn — Chief
- Sidney Bracey — Dr. Smith (uncredited)
- Eddy Chandler — Cop (uncredited)
- James Donlan — Al (uncredited)
Interesting facts
What! No Beer? is a 1933 Pre-Code comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. MGM had also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and Speak Easily.
Production
The filming of What! No Beer? was difficult. Since joining MGM in 1928, Keaton was not accorded the creative freedom that he had enjoyed during the silent era. He did not like MGM's decision to make him and Jimmy Durante a double-act: "we just did not belong in the same movies". By 1933, personal problems and a messy divorce were interfering with Keaton's work.
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