Comedy Double Feature Syracuse Cinephile Society
Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St.,
Syracuse
A Very Honorable Guy (1934) Cast: Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Alan Dinehart, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cavanaugh, Irene Franklin Director: Lloyd Bacon This Damon Runyon story finds Joe as an inept gambler who enters into a bizarre agreement to pay off his large gambling debt. When his luck changes for the better he tries to get out of the agreement but finds it's not so easy. A fast-moving Brown feature that really captures the spirit of Runyon settings and characters. The Public Menace (1935) Cast: Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, Robert Middlemass Director: Erle C. Kenton A manicurist (Arthur) loses her U.S. citizenship on a technicality and convinces a newspaper reporter (Murphy) to marry her so she isn't deported. A rare Columbia feature that combines comedy, drama, romance and even a crime story with gangsters ... It's a wild and fun mix!
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