The Working Man

The Working Man (1933)

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

Date of release
1933-04-20
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
John G. Adolfi

Casting

Interesting facts

The Working Man is a 1933 pre-Code American comedy film starring George Arliss and Bette Davis, and directed by John G. Adolfi. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story The Adopted Father by Edgar Franklin. The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Production notes

The Warner Bros. release marked the second pairing of George Arliss and Bette Davis, who co-starred in The Man Who Played God the year before.

The film had its world premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

It was a remake of an Arliss silent film, Twenty Dollars a Week, filmed in 1924. The 1936 20th Century Fox film Everybody's Old Man was based on the same source.

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