Se necesita un rival (1933)
The Working Man
El fabricante de zapatos John Reeves deja su empresa en manos de su imprudente sobrino, marchándose de vacaciones. En su retiro conoce a Jane Grey, la hija de su antiguo rival en el negocio del calzado. Aliándose con ella y creando una nueva empresa juntos, se enfrentará a su antigua empresa, en manos de su sobrino. Remake de "Twenty Dollars a Week", del año 1924.
- Fecha de estreno
- 1933-04-20
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (8)
- Duración
- 1 h 18 min
- Géneros
- Comedia, Drama
- Director
- John G. Adolfi
Reparto
- 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
Curiosidades
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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