• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1940-11-29
  • Runtime72 minutes
  • TaglineWas His Face Red . . . And His Nose, Too ! when the bandits took the money . . . and the SAFE !
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreComedy
  • Production
    CompaniesUniversal Pictures
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

Casts

W.C. Fields

Cora Witherspoon

Una Merkel

Evelyn Del Rio

Jessie Ralph

Franklin Pangborn

Shemp Howard

Dick Purcell

Grady Sutton

Russell Hicks

Pierre Watkin

Al Hill

George Moran

Jack Norton

Pat West

Reed Hadley

Harlan Briggs