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Status
Released
Release
1935
Runtime
1h 20m
"THEY PUT A NEW HIGH IN HILARITY!"
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
64 Cast Members
Jack Benny
Calvin Churchill
Ted Healy
'Clip' McGurk
Una Merkel
Alice Lane Churchill
Nat Pendleton
Henry Potke
Mary Carlisle
Grace Gridley
Grant Mitchell
W. R. Gridley
Harvey Stephens
Sidney Kendall
Charles Trowbridge
Alfred Drake
Johnny Arthur
Jones, Photographer
Al Shean
Mr. Johnson
Purnell Pratt
Horace McNab
Phillips Smalley
Mr. Winterby
Howard Hickman
Mr. Ruby
Larry Wheat
Tubbs
Richard Kipling
Mr. Platt
Jim Toney
Curly, House Detective
Maude Allen
Mrs. Smith Burlington
Clarence Wilson
Amos Whipple
Jean Acker
(uncredited)
Ernie Adams
Counterman (uncredited)
