Sudden Money
| Sudden Money | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nick Grinde |
| Written by | Lewis R. Foster |
| Produced by | William C. Thomas |
| Starring | Charlie Ruggles Marjorie Rambeau Charley Grapewin Broderick Crawford Billy Lee Evelyn Keyes |
| Cinematography | Henry Sharp |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| Music by | Sam Coslow John Leipold Leo Shuken |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 66 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sudden Money is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde, written by Lewis R. Foster and starring Charlie Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau, Charley Grapewin, Broderick Crawford, Billy Lee and Evelyn Keyes. It was released on March 31, 1939, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2]
Plot
[edit | edit source]When the Patterson family wins $150,000 in a sweepstakes, family patriarch and frustrated drummer Sweeney decides to reassemble his old college ragtime band. Sweeney's wife Elsie enrolls in an art school, eager to become a painter. Her brother Doc begins gambling on horse races. The Pattersons' daughter Mary attends an expensive boarding school while son Junior is enrolled in a military academy. Grandpa Casey disapproves, believing that the family should be more careful with the windfall.
A young woman named Yolo joins Sweeney's band and immediately creates problems. Her jealous ex-convict boyfriend punches Sweeney in the nose. Elsie's art teacher disappears with her tuition fee. Mary's new beau Johnny Jordan and his father are appalled by the family's behavior, and she is expelled from school. The family slowly returns to poverty.
Grandpa Casey, proven right about how the family handled its fortune, wins a small cash prize himself, and the family once again devises grand plans.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Charlie Ruggles as Sweeney J. Patterson
- Marjorie Rambeau as Elsie Patterson
- Charley Grapewin as Grandpa Casey Patterson
- Broderick Crawford as Archibald "Doc" Finney
- Billy Lee as Junior Patterson
- Evelyn Keyes as Mary Patterson
- Phil Warren as Eddie Dunn
- Joyce Mathews as Yolo
- Richard Denning as Johnny Jordan
- Mary Parker as Ellen
- Richard Tucker as Mr. Rodney Hinds
- James Burke as McPherson
- Charles Halton as Mr. Wixby
- Ethel Wales as Miss Perkins
- Alex Melesh as Prof. Armand Tito
- John Gallaudet as Phil Stokes
- John Kelly as Butch
- Homer Dickenson as Herbie
- Joe Yule as Joe
- Billy Engle as Peewee
- Douglas Wood as Mr. Jordan
- Eddie Marr as Diamond
- Donald Kerr as Ted
- William B. Davidson as Sam
- Emory Parnell as Cop
Reception
[edit | edit source]In a contemporary review, the Los Angeles Times called Sudden Money "an unusually good 'program' picture" and wrote: "When the money leads to disaster, and the entire family discovers it is better off right back where they started, the audience also finds it has been well entertained with a movie that rates top billing on any double bill."[3]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Sudden Money at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1939 films
- 1936 films
- American black-and-white films
- 1930s English-language films
- Films directed by Nick Grinde
- Paramount Pictures films
- American comedy films
- 1936 comedy films
- 1939 comedy films
- 1930s American films
- Films scored by John Leipold
- Films scored by Leo Shuken
- English-language comedy films
- 1930s comedy film stubs