Shoot the Works (1934)
1h 4m
Running Time
July 18, 1934Release Date
Shoot the Works (1934)
1h 4m
Running Time
July 18, 1934Release Date
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Plot.
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
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Cast & Crew.
Jack Oakie
Nicky Nelson
Ben Bernie
Joe Davis
Dorothy Dell
Lily Raquel
Roscoe Karns
Sailor Burke
Alison Skipworth
The Countess
Wesley Ruggles
Director
Arline Judge
Jackie Donovan
Claude Binyon
Writer
William Frawley
Larry Hale
Lew Cody
Axel Hanratty
Gene Fowler
Writer
Paul Cavanagh
Alvin Ritchie
Howard J. Green
Writer
Ben Hecht
Writer
Monte Vandergrift
Man from Board of Health
Albert Lewis
Producer
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Wiki.
Shoot the Works is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon, Gene Fowler, Howard J. Green and Ben Hecht. It is based on the Gene Fowler and Harold Hecht 1932 play The Great Magoo (and not, despite the title, the 1931 musical revue Shoot the Works). The film stars Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Arline Judge and William Frawley. The film was released on June 29, 1934, by Paramount Pictures, preceding by two days the beginning of the most rigorously enforced version of the Hollywood Production Code, which came into effect on July 1, 1934.