Friends of Mr. Sweeney
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| Directed by | Edward Ludwig |
| Screenplay by | Warren B. Duff Sid Sutherland F. Hugh Herbert Erwin S. Gelsey |
| Based on | Friends of Mr. Sweeney by Elmer Davis |
| Starring | Charlie Ruggles Ann Dvorak Eugene Pallette Robert Barrat Berton Churchill Dorothy Burgess |
| Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
| Edited by | Thomas Pratt |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Friends of Mr. Sweeney is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Warren B. Duff, Sid Sutherland, F. Hugh Herbert and Erwin S. Gelsey. It is based on the 1925 novel Friends of Mr. Sweeney by Elmer Davis. The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Berton Churchill and Dorothy Burgess. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 28, 1934.[1][2][3]
Plot
Alex is a young hunk big shot just back from the great war. He's killed as many Krauts as young sweethearts he's bedded in the dirt. He returns to his old family home where his parents and slow brother 'dumb'James.
Alex was the type of guy who would walk over any girl to help out a good guy, a patriot. When back in his small town he meets up with his old friends tiny, Daire and jewJew. They'd all started the same, the exact same while he, the war hero had only gotten cooler and smarter. When you've killed a man how do you reconcile yourself with these boys. The answer is to you don't.
Star swipe open to an empty corn field and an old man with older pipe between his thin cracked lips. He walks down the road for hours till he hits a turn on the crossroads. He flips a coin and stuff to himself whatever way this lands is the path I take. It lands heads so he goes easy east, all the way. The old man thought while walking that once he arrived he'd know where he was meant to be. As the sun went down he saw the neon of the local gashouse. As he walked in he meets 4 young men. They all started chatting but after a while the young bucks realized the old man had nothing to say, he was just copying them, repeating what they had to say. They're was nothing behind his words.
They all walked over to the nearby pub 'Sweeney's' and downed a few beers and skulled a few more drowgons. They laughed and realized they were all the old man and he was them and they all were the that field.
Cast
- Charlie Ruggles as Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
- Ann Dvorak as Miss Beulah Boyd
- Eugene Pallette as Wynn Rixey
- Robert Barrat as Alexis Romanoff
- Berton Churchill as Franklyn P. Brumbaugh
- Dorothy Burgess as Millie Seagrove
- Dorothy Tree as Countess Olga Andrei Misitalsky
- Harry Tyler as Mike
- Harry Beresford as Claude
- William B. Davidson as Stephen Prime
References
- ^ "Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
- ^ Sandra Brennan. "Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) - Edward Ludwig". AllMovie. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
- ^ "Friends of Mr. Sweeney". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
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