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A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate C: 1200' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Silent Clyde Bruckman Director: Clyde Bruckman
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president. He keeps files of details about all the people he meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. At the start of the film, two burglars break into Ambrose's cellar late at night, get drunk on his homemade applejack, and start singing "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"; Ambrose winds up being arrested for distilling liquor without a license. The next day, Ambrose falsely tells Malloy that Cordelia had died from drinking poisoned liquor, and asks for
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president. He keeps files of details about all the people he meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. At the start of the film, two burglars break into Ambrose's cellar late at night, get drunk on his homemade applejack, and start singing "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"; Ambrose winds up being arrested for distilling liquor without a license. The next day, Ambrose falsely tells Malloy that Cordelia had died from drinking poisoned liquor, and asks for
Credits
- Directed by
- W. C. Fields, Clyde Bruckman
- Cast
- Walter Brennan, W. C. Fields, Billy Bletcher, Mary Brian, Oscar Apfel, Kathleen Howard, James Flavin, Tor Johnson, Grady Sutton, Sam Lufkin, Lucien Littlefield, Pat O'Malley, Rosemary Theby, Vera Lewis, Arthur Aylesworth, Edward Gargan, George B. French, James Burke
- Produced by
- William LeBaron
- Cinematography
- Alfred Gilks
- Edited by
- Richard C. Currier
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description
- Wikidata · Q3233429 ↗ — color
- 16mm Filmography editors — country, genre, credits
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