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So's Your Old Man
So's Your Old Man

So's Your Old Man

"Could you drive a car through a tree- beat any golfer alive- Make bricks bounce off glass?" So's Your old Man.

Genres

Comedy

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Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

67 mins

Rating

6.556/10

Release Date

25 October 1926

Country

United States of America

Cast

W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields

Samuel Bisbee

Alice Joyce

Alice Joyce

Princess Lescaboura

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Kenneth Murchison

Kittens Reichert

Kittens Reichert

Alice Bisbee

Marcia Harris

Marcia Harris

Mrs. Bisbee

Julia Ralph

Julia Ralph

Mrs. Murchison

Frank Montgomery

Frank Montgomery

Jeff

Jerry Sinclair

Jerry Sinclair

Al

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