A group of taxi drivers pool their money and buy a beer-loving racehorse.A group of taxi drivers pool their money and buy a beer-loving racehorse.A group of taxi drivers pool their money and buy a beer-loving racehorse.
Vinton Hayworth
- Harry - Rider with Margie
- (as Jack Arnold)
Brooks Benedict
- Maj. 'Brownie' Horner
- (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
- Racetrack Bookie
- (uncredited)
- …
Eddie Borden
- Skinny Taxi Driver
- (uncredited)
Harry Bowen
- Taxi Driver
- (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
- Racetrack Taxi Patron
- (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
- Horse Seller to Col. March
- (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
- Racetrack Detective
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Race Judge
- (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
- Cab Mechanic
- (uncredited)
- …
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Ina Firpo: It's the prettiest place you ever saw. It's got a white picket fence all around and creepers all over the house.
Ernest 'Ernie' Ambrose: Creepers? Oh, don't worry about those. The pigeons will eat them up.
Ina Firpo: Oh, Ernie, be sensible. When you and I get married we'll be very happy there.
Ernest 'Ernie' Ambrose: Will the pigeons like it?
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Joe Penner
A group of cabbie friends decides to buy their own racehorse. They tap pigeon trainer Ernest Ambrose (Joe Penner) to go to Kentucky. He gets quickly targeted by a con man who sells him an alcoholic horse. The horse is a loser until Ernest's crush Ina Firpo (Betty Grable) overhears the secret of the horse from the con man. It runs best on beer.
I don't know Joe Penner but he was apparently a big depression era comedian. I can certainly see the screwball comedy of it all and Penner's vaudevillian skills. He's doing something like Jim Varney's Ernest. There is nothing wrong with that type of comedy but it's not the most refined. The writing is a bit messy but there is inherent comedy in a drunken horse premise.
I don't know Joe Penner but he was apparently a big depression era comedian. I can certainly see the screwball comedy of it all and Penner's vaudevillian skills. He's doing something like Jim Varney's Ernest. There is nothing wrong with that type of comedy but it's not the most refined. The writing is a bit messy but there is inherent comedy in a drunken horse premise.
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- May 20, 2022
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By what name was The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) officially released in Canada in English?
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