Flirting With Fate (1938)
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Flirting with Fate is one of the lesser Joe E. Brown vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew. Brown is cast as Dixon, the manager of a third-rate vaudeville troupe stranded in a mythical South American country. Completely broke, Dixon hits upon a plan to finance the actors' trip home:… More Flirting with Fate is one of the lesser Joe E. Brown vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew. Brown is cast as Dixon, the manager of a third-rate vaudeville troupe stranded in a mythical South American country. Completely broke, Dixon hits upon a plan to finance the actors' trip home: he'll take out a huge life insurance policy, then arrange to get himself killed by bandit chieftan Sancho (Leo Carrillo). Unfortunately, Sancho has no interest whatsoever in knocking off our hero, nor can he be insulted into committing the deed. By the final reel, of course, Dixon has decided to go on living-and that's when his life is really in danger, courtesy of a cannister of nitroglycerine. Hungarian-born Steffi Duna provides unintentional laughs as an offkey Latin American songstress. The title Flirting with Fate had previously been used by Douglas Fairbanks in 1917; coincidentally, that film also had a leading character with suicidal notions. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Comedy
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Cast
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Joe E. Brown
as Dixon
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Leo Carrillo
as Sancho
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Beverly Roberts
as Patricia
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Wynne Gibson
as Bertha
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Steffi Duna
as Carlita
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Charles Judels
as Garcia
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Stanley Fields
as Fernando
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Leonid Kinskey
as Lopez
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Chris-Pin Martin
as Solado
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Inez Palange
as Senora Lopez
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Irene Franklin
as Hattie
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Jay Novello
as Del Valle
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George Humbert
as Del Rio
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Lew Kelly
as Herbie
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Anne Hovey
as Ida
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Dick Botiller
as Renaldo
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Carlos Villarķas
as Captain
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Philip Trent
as Larry
