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Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Barry, John Miljan, Edward Brophy

Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. With prohibition apparently ...( read more  read more... )on the verge of ending, Elmer's friend Jimmy Potts gets an idea to make them both rich by opening a brewery just before the legalization of alcoholic beverages. Their timing is off, and the police raid them, but their inept brewing has created a beer with no alcohol, so they are let off. It has also resulted in a cheaply made beer, and bootlegger Spike Moran realizes that he can vastly increase his profits by partnering with Elmer and Jimmy. None of them reckon on another competitor, bootlegger and gangster Butch Lorado. Butch has a girlfriend....Elmer's dream girl, Hortense.

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Unrated, 66 min.

Directed by: Edward Sedgwick

Release Date: February 10, 1933

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