What! No Beer?

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

Unrated, 1 hr. 6 min.
Directed By
Edward Sedgwick
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Feb 10, 1933 Wide
On DVD
Jan 27, 1993

Critic Reviews

  • 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

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