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In the Money (1933) Online
Original Title :
In the Money
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Drama
Year :
1933
Directror :
Frank R. Strayer
Cast :
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher,Lois Wilson,Warren Hymer
Writer :
Robert Ellis,Robert Ellis
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 6min
Rating :
5.4/10
In the Money (1933) Online

Professor Higgingbottom, an ardent member of the Whales, is offered a chance to invest $5,000 in a gold mine. Mrs. Higginbottom is opposed but the four Higginbottom children approve, on the premise that if Pa makes some easy money, they can continue to loaf. Grandpa, a kindly but meddling old soul also arrives for a visit. Money begins to roll in but not as fast as the children spend it. And then the investment turns out to be a pyramid scheme, and the family is stone-cold broke.
Cast overview:
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher - Spunk Hobbs (as 'Skeets' Gallagher)
Lois Wilson Lois Wilson - Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
Warren Hymer Warren Hymer - Gunboat Bimms
Sally Starr Sally Starr - Babs Higginbottom
Arthur Hoyt Arthur Hoyt - Professor Higginbottom
Frank Coghlan Jr. Frank Coghlan Jr. - Dick Higginbottom
Erin La Bissoniere Erin La Bissoniere - Genie
Harold Waldridge Harold Waldridge - Lionel
Louise Beavers Louise Beavers - Lily

This film received its earliest documented telecast in Los Angeles Monday 22 September 1952 on KECA (Channel 7).


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Jaiarton

Jaiarton

In The Money is one of those Depression Era films where a formerly prosperous and idle family who lived on the dividends of a successful business. It has a dopey charm to it that makes it acceptable viewing for today.

Of course you have to really suspend disbelief that some idle rich girl would marry a pug fighter like Warren Hymer. But that's what Sally Starr does and later on her older and a bit more intelligent sister Lois Wilso takes up with his manager Skeets Gallagher.

As for Gallagher he's trying to urge his fighter back in the ring, but Hymer has decided he wants to be an actor and not just any actor, but a classical one. You have to hear him reading those lines from Hamlet that Laurence Olivier brought to the screen. It's a scream.

Hymer and Gallagher in another way prove to be this family's salvation and Arthur Hoyt sees his daughters married off. As for sons Harold Waldridge and Frank Coghlan I don't see much prospects for them other than being wastrels.

In The Money is a funny, but terribly dated Depression Era comedy with the lack of production values associated with a Poverty Row Studio.