He Couldn't Say No

He Couldn't Say No

🎞️ Movie 57 min US
โ˜… 5.8 /10 1938

HE GAMBLED ON LIFE...and won first prize in a love sweepstakes

Office clerk Lambert T. Hunkins gets a ten-dollar raise and his girlfriend, Violet Coney, and her mother learn that he has also some money saved, and decide it is time Lambert and Violet got married and start supporting them. Lambert is secretly in lone with Iris Mabby, daughter of Senator Mabby, and he clips all the pictures of her that appears in the newspapers. Violet and Mom railroad him into getting engaged to Violet, and take him to an auction to buy for furniture for future use. Instead, he buys an-unauthorized statue of Iris. Her father wants it back, Lambert refuses and won't sell it at any price. Then a trio of gangsters show up with intentions of selling it to the senator at a very high price. Complications ensue en mass.

Cast

Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh
Lambert Hunkins
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman
Violet Coney
Cora Witherspoon
Cora Witherspoon
Mrs. Coney
Diana Lewis
Diana Lewis
Iris Mabby
Berton Churchill
Berton Churchill
Senator Mabby
Ferris Taylor
Ferris Taylor
Oxnard O. Parsons
William Haade
William Haade
Slug, a Gangster
Tom Kennedy
Tom Kennedy
Dimples, a Gangster
Raymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton
Hymie Atlas, a Gangster
John Ridgely
John Ridgely
Ed, the Man-on-the-Street Radio Reporter
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Arthur L. Todd
Cinematographer