So's Your Old Man
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gregory La Cava
W. C. Fields
Alice Joyce
Charles [buddy] Rogers
Kittens Reichert
Marcia Harris
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Synopsis
Waukegus, New Jersey, is a small town where Samuel Bisbee lives in a state of confused but devilish dilapidation. His daughter, Alice, is being courted by Kenneth Murchison, and on the afternoon that Mrs. Murchison comes to meet the apple of her son's eye, Old Sam stumbles in from his shop in the back, having partaken of sarsaparilla and spirits with some amiable cronies, and horrifies the orotund social heiress. He assures all that their tune will change when his newest invention--an unbreakable auto glass--is snapped up by a group of automen who are meeting in Washington and have asked Sam for a demonstration. He parks his flivver in front of the hotel, but his auto is displaced. Soon the committee follows him out, and Sam proceeds to bombard what he thinks is his chariot with bricks. Much to his chagrin, the glass in the car shatters into a jigsaw. Sam grabs a train for home; he contemplates suicide, but his vial of poison is broken. He then is jostled into the compartment of the lovely Spanish princess Lescaboura, and upon spying a bottle of iodine, reads his own thwarted intentions onto the princess and tries to salvage her spirits. Sam is spied on the train by some gossips and so slandered that he returns from his 3-day binge searching for the fortitude to face the Missus. He is wending his way home, having purchased a pony as a peace offering, when the town's elite and the princess overtake him, and she shows them his affectionate place in her heart. Sam is given the honor of blasting the first ball at the new country club opening, and when his glass is proven impervious, he wins a million-dollar contract. Smalltown lifeSocial classesGossipAutomobilesCountry clubsHorses
Director
Gregory La Cava
Cast
W. C. Fields
Alice Joyce
Charles [buddy] Rogers
Kittens Reichert
Marcia Harris
Julia Ralph
Frank Montgomery
Jerry Sinclair
Crew
Film Details
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