Parachute Jumper (1933)

To share expenses unemployed Alabama move in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. Weber's (the gangster's) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber, Thomas E. Jackson, Lyle Talbot, Leon Ames, Reginald Barlow, Stanley Blystone, Harry C. Bradley, Ed Brady, Walter Brennan, George Chandler, G. Pat Collins, Gordon De Main, Sayre Dearing, Frank Fanning, Frank Hagney, Pat Harmon, Harold Healy, Walter Miller, Philip Morris, Ferdinand Munier, Frank O'Connor, Pat O'Malley, Paul Panzer, Nat Pendleton, Russ Powell




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Bill Keller and Toodles Cooper arrive in New York after they leave the United States Marines, expecting to find jobs as commercial pilots. Learning that the company which hired them has since gone out of business, they join the ranks of the unemployed. Down to his last fifty cents, Bill meets Patrica Kent, known as Alabama for her southern accent, and buys her breakfast with the remains of his money. He suggests that she join him and Toodles in their apartment, and after she is convinced that his intentions are honorable, she agrees. Bill tries his hand at parachute jumping and is nearly killed when he lands on the railroad tracks in front of an oncoming train. After promising Alabama that he will never attempt the stunt again, he overhears two chauffeurs talking about a woman, Mrs. Newberry, who needs an elegant chauffeur. He spends the money he earned from jumping on a new uniform and gets the job. Mrs. Newberry is being kept by Kurt Weber, a bootlegger. He discovers her in compromising circumstances with Bill but, impressed by Bill's coolness in the situation, he kicks Mrs. Newberry out of the apartment and offers Bill a position as his bodyguard. Hiding outside the office, Bill overhears Alabama flirting with Weber in an attempt to get a job as his secretary. Bill thinks that she is fickle and they quarrel. Later, during a routine smuggling flight into Canada, Bill and Toodles are chased by the Border Patrol. Believing them to be hijackers, Bill shoots down the airplanes. Alabama saves Bill from a frame-up by Weber's henchman Steve and convinces him to resign. Bill agrees to help Weber one more time, but when he discovers that they have unknowingly been smuggling narcotics along with the alcohol, Bill crashes his own airplane, making it look as if Weber had been flying with Bill as his captive. Toodles reinlists in the Marines and after obtaining Alabama's consent to marry him, Bill reinlists too

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