What! No Beer? (1933)

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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer brewery with the hope that Prohibition will soon be over. However, things don't work out exactly as they planned, and they end up in a mess of trouble. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 6 min.
Directed By: Edward Sedgwick
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Feb 10, 1933 Wide
On DVD: Jan 27, 1993

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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The weak Prohibition comedy is never funny.

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Matthew Y

Damn...and it had such a great title too. What! No Beer? is in need of a reboot if for nothing else to here that excellent title spoken again and again. Unfortunately said title is probably the funniest joke in the film and Keaton once again cannot overcome the MGM constraints that… More
Damn...and it had such a great title too. What! No Beer? is in need of a reboot if for nothing else to here that excellent title spoken again and again. Unfortunately said title is probably the funniest joke in the film and Keaton once again cannot overcome the MGM constraints that ruined his career. Thank god for everything he did in the 20's because this stuff is heartbreakingly inferior.