The Working Man (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7200 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:17:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7200 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:17:00 | USA | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Successful wealthy shoe manufacturer John Reeves takes a vacation leaving his business in the hands of his nephew. While on vacation Reeves runs into his rivals heirs who are living it up on their dead father's money. He doesn't tell them who he is and gets placed as their trustee. He uses the chance to reorganize their shoe company, becoming a rival for his own nephew. The ne'er-do-wells settle down and become involved in the business.
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Hardie Albright, Gordon Westcott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Charles E. Evans, Frederick Burton, Pat Wing, Edward Van Sloan, Claire McDowell, Ruthelma Stevens, Harry C. Bradley, James Bush, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement, Edward Cooper, James Donlan, Douglass Dumbrille, Helena Phillips Evans, Harrison Greene, Selmer Jackson, Edward LeSaint, Harold Minjir, William V. Mong, Herbert Rawlinson, Charles Sherlock, Gertrude Sutton, Richard Tucker
The Working Man (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
The Reeves Shoe Company and the Hartland Shoe Company have been friendly rivals ever since John Reeves and Tom Hartland fell in love with the same woman. Tom Hartland won her while John Reeves remained a bachelor, hiring his ambitious young nephew, Benjamin Burnett, as his general manager. After Tom Hartland dies, Reeves overhears Benjamin muse that he is slipping. Annoyed, he decides to go fishing in Maine and leave Benjamin to run the company without him, just to see how well he will do. In Maine, Reeves meets Jenny and Tommy Hartland, the two undisciplined children of his old rival. Disturbed by their careless lifestyle, Reeves pretends to be an old fisherman named John Walton and contrives to be taken to New York by the brother and sister. Once there, he sees that the Hartland factory is being mismanaged by Fred Pettison. He has himself appointed a trustee of the Hartland estate in order to force the Hartlands to take charge of their lives. Tommy starts to learn the business, and Jenny gets a job at the Reeves Company under an assumed name. Reeves helps Tommy run the business, making it successful again. After learning that Pettison is trying to sell the business to a syndicate at a profit for himself, Reeves fires him. Jenny and Benjamin have fallen in love, but when Benjamin discovers her true identity, he decides she was spying on the company and sadly breaks off their affair. At the last minute, Reeves straightens out everything, and the two companies merge
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The Working Man (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
