In the Money
About In the Money
Professor Higginbottom's chemical company goes bankrupt, and the family loses its income. Oldest daughter Lambie tries to cut the spending. Her siblings will not. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race for a $500 prize, crashes, and is paralyzed. Sister Babs then talks former prizefighter Gunboat Bimms into one more fight, hoping the purse will pay for Dick's surgery.
Cast & crew
More about In the Money
Frank R. Strayer directed Robert Ellis's script. Maury M. Cohen produced. Chesterfield Motion Pictures distributed it. M. A. Anderson photographed it. Roland Reed edited. The U.S. premiere was 7 November 1933. Wikipedia lists the running time as 66 minutes.
Themes
Background
A pre-Code comedy premiered on 7 November 1933, about a family that loses a chemical business.
Making
Invincible and Chesterfield, the paired Poverty Row companies, made the comedy around a bankruptcy and a benefit fight.
Look
M. A. Anderson photographed the house, the speedway crash, and the fight.
Preservation
The film survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Lois Wilson plays Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom. Arthur Hoyt plays the professor. Junior Coghlan plays Dick. Sally Starr plays Babs.
- Warren Hymer plays Gunboat Bimms. Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher plays Spunk Hobbs.
- Louise Beavers plays Lily.
- A circulating copy runs 1 hour, 2 minutes, and 14 seconds.
Scenes
- Dick crashes in the motorcycle race and is paralyzed.
- Babs sends Gunboat Bimms back into the ring.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (In the Money (1933).webm)
