Great Man Votes, The (1939) - (Movie Clip) Pop's Only Speaking Metagorical

Name: Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pop's Only Speaking Metagorical
Uploaded: 2019-04-30T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: Our first scene in the Vance the household, where John Barrymore is Pop, , a usually drunk but apparently erudite night watchman in a nameless Prohibition-era city, and Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler are introduced as his precocious children, in The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.

Our first scene in the Vance the household, where John Barrymore is “Pop,” , a usually drunk but apparently erudite night watchman in a nameless Prohibition-era city, and Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler are introduced as his precocious children, in The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.

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