Clancy in Wall Street
About Clancy in Wall Street
Plumber Michael Clancy is fixing a pipe at the stock exchange when he buys shares by accident and clears $200 on a 20 percent margin. His partner of twenty years, Andy MacIntosh, will not join him. Clancy makes a fortune, quits the shop, and pushes into high society. He wants his daughter Katie to drop MacIntosh's son Donald for Freddie Saunders. Then the market breaks.
Cast & crew
More about Clancy in Wall Street
Edward Small produced the pre-Code comedy. Ted Wilde is the credited director. He died in December 1929, and the picture, his last, opened on March 15, 1930. Aristocrat Pictures distributed it. It was also called Clancy Caught Short, and it was billed as the first comedy about the crash.
Themes
Background
It opened in March 1930, months after the October 1929 crash, and was described at the time as the first comedy on that subject.
Notes
- Charles Murray plays Michael Clancy. Aggie Herring is Mrs. Clancy. Lucien Littlefield is Andy MacIntosh.
- Miriam Seegar is Katie Clancy. Edward Nugent is Donald MacIntosh. Reed Howes is Freddie Saunders.
- Murray had already made several films for Edward Small.
- The accidental buy happens while Clancy is repairing pipe on the exchange floor.
Scenes
- Clancy, wrench in hand, buys stock by mistake and pockets $200.
- MacIntosh will not put the partnership into the market.
- Clancy tells Katie to drop Donald for Freddie Saunders.
- The crash arrives after he has left the plumbing shop.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Clancy in Wall Street (1930).webm)
