Politics

Politics

🎞️ Movie 73 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1931

Vote the Straight Laugh Ticket!

Middle-aged, small-town widow Hattie Burns is angered when a friend's daughter is inadvertently killed by s stray bullet in a gangland shootout at a local speakeasy. When Hattie confronts the mayor, a political hack running for re-election, at a campaign event about closing the illegal operations down, he brushes her off as only a woman. Other women at the rally draft her as a rival candidate with best-friend Ivy as campaign manager and female voters go on a "Lysistrata"-like parlor, bedroom, and bath strike in order to insure Hattie's election. Unfortunately, Hattie does not know that her daughter Myrtle's boyfriend, a reformed but wounded hoodlum, is hiding out in her attic.

Cast

Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler
Hattie Burns
Polly Moran
Polly Moran
Ivy Higgins
Roscoe Ates
Roscoe Ates
Peter Higgins
Karen Morley
Karen Morley
Myrtle Burns
William Bakewell
William Bakewell
Benny Emerson
John Miljan
John Miljan
Jim Curango
Joan Marsh
Joan Marsh
Daisy Evans
Tom McGuire
Tom McGuire
Mayor Tom Collins
Kane Richmond
Kane Richmond
Nifty Morgan
Mary Alden
Mary Alden
Mrs. Mary Evans
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Clyde De Vinna
Cinematographer