Hard to Handle (film)

1933 film

  • January 28, 1933 (1933-01-28)
Running time
78 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Hard to Handle (1933) is a pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Plot

Cast

  • James Cagney as Myron C. 'Lefty' Merrill
  • Mary Brian as Ruth Waters
  • Allen Jenkins as Marathon radio announcer
  • Ruth Donnelly as Lil Waters
  • Claire Dodd as Marlene Reeves
  • Robert McWade as Charles G. Reeves
  • Berton Churchill as Col. H.D.X. Wells
  • Emma Dunn as Mrs. Hawks
  • Gavin Gordon as John Hayden
  • Sterling Holloway as Andy Heaney
  • William H. Strauss as Mr. Abe Goldstein
  • Bess Flowers as Merrill's Secretary
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Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy
1920s
  • No Place to Go (1927)
  • Flying Romeos (1928)
  • Harold Teen (1928)
  • Oh, Kay! (1928)
  • Naughty Baby (1928)
  • Hot Stuff (1929)
  • Broadway Babies (1929)
  • Little Johnny Jones (1929)
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