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A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Robert Barrat
- Max Brinker
- (as Robert Barratt)
Charley Grapewin
- Pa Dennis
- (as Charles Grapewin)
G. Pat Collins
- Leader of Agitators
- (as George Pat Collins)
John Marston
- The Judge
- (voice)
Willard Robertson
- The Sheriff
- (scenes deleted)
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- TriviaWarner Bros. press releases stated director William A. Wellman used real hobos for the fight scene and real laundry workers for the laundry scenes.
- GoofsA newspaper photograph showing the new equipment at the laundry mistakenly identifies Max Brinker as Hans Brinker.
- Quotes
Thomas 'Tom' Holmes: I thought you hated all employers and capitalists.
Max Brinker: I despise them! I spit on them! But, I'm villing to get rich vith them.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Angry Screen (1964)
- SoundtracksSemper Fidelis
(1888) (uncredited)
Music by John Philip Sousa
Played during announcement of the armistice
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I WATCHED 'TIL IT STOPPED!
There's something strange about watching most pre-code WB movies: they don't end so much as they just STOP. It's as if Jack Warner doled out a budget and the director just shut the production down when the film stock quit being delivered. Wild Bill Wellman's a top-notch director knee deep into his socialist fervor period (see WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD as a double bill), Barthemless is a hapless WWI vet who traded heroism for a morphine addiction--- his cowardly platoon commander got the glory and he faces the next 14 years dealing with everything life throws at him. His fortunes ironically change when his cartoon-Red neighbor (played to the usual hilt by Robert Barratt) invents a machine that allows them both to get rich, but Barthemless has gains a deeper social conscious as Barratt loses his. This is really a big budget (for Warners!) soap opera. An uplifting ending is tacked on after Barthemless disappears into the Land of the Hobos. Watchable as an example of early 30's "realism."
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- $290,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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