About
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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Apr 4, 1947
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$1.7M
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United Artists
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Cast
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Harold Lloyd
Harold Diddlebock
J
Jimmy Conlin
Wormy
R
Raymond Walburn
E.J. Waggleberry
R
Rudy Vallee
Lynn Sargent
E
Edgar Kennedy
Jake the Bartender
M
Margaret Hamilton
Flora
F
Franklin Pangborn
Formfit Franklin
J
Jack Norton
James R. Smoke
A
Arline Judge
Manicurist
L
Lionel Stander
Max
R
Robert Dudley
Robert McDuffy
A
Arthur Hoyt
J.P. Blackstone
J
Julius Tannen
Nearsighted Banker
A
Al Bridge
Wild Bill Hickock
R
Robert Greig
Algernon McNiff
G
Georgia Caine
Bearded Lady
T
Torben Meyer
Barber with Mustache
V
Victor Potel
Prof. Potelle
J
J. Farrell MacDonald
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
F
Frank Moran
Mike the Cop (uncredited)
