She Couldn't Take It (Woman Tamer) (1935)
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at least he'll be free of his dizzy, spendthrift wife (Billie Burke) and spoiled-rotten daughter Carol (Joan Bennett). Once behind bars, Van Dyke strikes up a friendship… More When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at least he'll be free of his dizzy, spendthrift wife (Billie Burke) and spoiled-rotten daughter Carol (Joan Bennett). Once behind bars, Van Dyke strikes up a friendship with amiable reformed bootlegger Ricardi (George Raft). Since Ricardi is to be sprung first, Van Dyke suggests that the ex-crook take on the task of "taming" the incorrigible Carol. Unwilling to be stifled by a former jailbird (even a good-looking one), Carol decides to get even by persuading one of Ricardi's former cohorts, a shady character named Tex (Lloyd Nolan) to stage a fake kidnapping. Trouble is, Tex kidnaps the girl for real, obliging Ricardi to race to her rescue -- but only after deliberately breaking every traffic law known to man, so that he'll be pursued by a veritable battalion of motorcycle cops (this hilarious finale was later re-used in the 1941 Buster Keaton two-reeler So You Won't Squawk). A heady blend of screwball comedy and crime melodrama, She Couldn't Take It is one of the fastest and funniest films of 1935. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Tay Garnett
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 8, 1935 Wide
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Cast
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George Raft
as Spot Ricardi
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Joan Bennett
as Carol Van Dyke
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Walter Connolly
as Mr. Van Dyke
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Billie Burke
as Mrs. Van Dyke
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Lloyd Nolan
as Tex
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Wallace Ford
as "Finger" Boston
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James "Doc" Blakely
as Tony Van Dyke
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Alan Mowbray
as Alan Hamlin
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William Tannen
as Cesar
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Donald Meek
as Uncle Wyndersham
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Stanley Andrews
as Wyndersham
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Frank Austin
as Railroad Attendant
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Irving Bacon
as Man at Toll Gate
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Wryley Birch
as Dr. Schaeffer
- James P. Burtis
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Kernan Cripps
as Guard
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Carrie Daumery
as Woman
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Jack Daley
as District Attorney's Man
- Edgar Dearing
- John Webb Dillon
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Jack Duffy
as Farmer
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Al Ferguson
as Prisoner
- Bess Flowers
- Jack Gardner
- Grace Goodall
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Mack Gray
as Ike
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Harrison Greene
as Spieler
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Eddie Gribbon
as Detective
- Arthur Stuart Hull
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Maynard Holmes
as Edgar
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Olaf Hytten
as Butler
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John Ince
as Prison Official
- James B. "Pop" Kenton
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Donald Kerr
as Sailor
- Frank LaRue
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William E. Lawrence
as Photographer
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Ivan Lebedeff
as Count
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George Lloyd
as Turnkey
- Stanley Mack
- Frank Marlowe
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George McKay
as Red
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Robert Middlemass
as Desk Sergeant
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Gene Morgan
as District Attorney's Man
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Joe North
as Butler
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Ted Oliver
as Motorcycle Cop
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Franklin Pangborn
as Secretary
- Walter Perry
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Lee Phelps
as Bailiff
- Victor Potel
- Arthur Rankin
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Frank Rice
as Milkman
- Henry Roquemore
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Oscar Rudolph
as Newsboy
- Charles Sherlock
- Antrim Short
- Lee Shumway
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Henry Sylvester
as Stage Manager
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Raymond D. Turner
as Janitor
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Emmett Vogan
as Reporter
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Walter Walker
as Judge
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George Webb
as Editor
- Billy West
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Huey White
as Eddie Gore
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Frank Conroy
as Raleigh
- Gladys Gale
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Thomas E. Jackson
as Spieler
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Paul Power
as Man
- James Harrison
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Lon Poff
as Judge
- Tom Costello
- Edith Kingdon
- Michael Lally
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Nadine Dore
as Girl
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J. Merrill Holmes
as Prison Doctor
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Maxine Lewis
as Crooner
- Lois Lindsey
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John Quillan
as Bellboy
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Loren Riebe
as Human Fly
- Ky Robinson
- Robert Wilbur
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Tom Kennedy
as Slug
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Frank Fanning
as Warden
