Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Acting
Harold Lloyd's final film performance, age 54, still doing physical comedy.
Direction
Sturges' rapid-fire dialogue staged with screwball precision.
Writing
The legendary 'Diddlebock Cocktail' recipe scene — pure nonsense poetry.
Director
Preston Sturges
Harold Lloyd
Harold Diddlebock
Jimmy Conlin
Wormy
Raymond Walburn
E.J. Waggleberry
Rudy Vallee
Lynn Sargent
Edgar Kennedy
Jake the Bartender
Margaret Hamilton
Flora
Franklin Pangborn
Formfit Franklin
Jack Norton
James R. Smoke
Arline Judge
Manicurist
Lionel Stander
Max
Robert Dudley
Robert McDuffy
Arthur Hoyt
J.P. Blackstone
Julius Tannen
Nearsighted Banker
Al Bridge
Wild Bill Hickock
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