Comedy · United States of America · 1931 · 18m

What Price Pants

Director

Cast

Joe Smith as Marvin Pitsik / Cigarface Pitsik Charles Dale as Jacob Wolf / Lone Jake Wolf Millard Mitchell as Secretary (uncredited) James C. Morton as Henchman (uncredited) Ralph Sanford as Bartender (uncredited) Tammany Young as Doorman (uncredited)

Synopsis

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Smith, informing him that he's about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Dale intercepts the letter, and offers Smith a partnership in the pants factory...

Mood & Themes

prohibition era vaudeville

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