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.
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1933-04-20
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (8)
- Laufzeit
- 1 Std. 18 Min.
- Genres
- Komödie, Drama
- Regie
- John G. Adolfi
Besetzung
- George Arliss — John Reeves alias John Walton
- Bette Davis — Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
- Theodore Newton — Tommy Hartland
- Hardie Albright — Benjamin 'Benny' Burnett
- Gordon Westcott — Fred 'Freddie' Pettison
- J. Farrell MacDonald — Henry 'Hank' Davis
- Charles E. Evans — Mr. Haslitt
- Frederick Burton — Judge Larson
- Pat Wing — Reeves's Secretary
- Edward Van Sloan — Mr. Briggs
- Claire McDowell — Benjamin's Secretary
- Ruthelma Stevens — Mrs. Price
Wissenswertes
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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