Hard to Handle (1933)
1h 18m
Running Time
January 28, 1933Release Date
Hard to Handle (1933)
1h 18m
Running Time
January 28, 1933Release Date
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Plot.
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Cast & Crew.
James Cagney
Lefty Merrill
Mary Brian
Ruth Waters
Allen Jenkins
Radio Announcer
Ruth Donnelly
Lil Waters
Claire Dodd
Marlene Reeves
Robert McWade
Charles Reeves
Clay Clement
Federal Man #1 (uncredited)
Sherwood Bailey
Boy on Pier
Sherwood Bailey
Boy on Pier
Don Brodie
Sound Man
Berton Churchill
Col. H.D.X. Wells
Davison Clark
Federal Man #2
G. Pat Collins
Dance Judge (uncredited)
Jack Crawford
Ralph Blackman - Band Leader (uncredited)
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
Mary Doran
Dance Contestant (uncredited)
Robert Lord
Writer
Wilson Mizner
Writer
Lester Dorr
Ed - Photographer (uncredited)
Douglass Dumbrille
District Attorney (uncredited)
Houston Branch
Writer
Emma Dunn
Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
Barney McGill
Cinematographer
William Holmes
Editor
June Gittelson
Fat Girl with Hamburger (uncredited)
Charles Eaton
Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Merrill's Secretary (uncredited)
Gavin Gordon
John Hayden (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Fat Lady with Vanishing Cream (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Andy Heaney (uncredited)
Harry Holman
Colonel's Associate (uncredited)
Tenen Holtz
Tailor (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Grapefruit Acres Executive (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Hash-Slinger (uncredited)
Louise Mackintosh
Mrs. O.H.P. Weston-Parks (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Bedford College Dignitary (uncredited)
Larry McGrath
Dance Observer (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Joe Goetz (uncredited)
Henry Otho
Dance Worker Owed Three Weeks' Wages (uncredited)
Fred Santley
Grapefruit Acres Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Cliff Saum
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
John Sheehan
Ed 'Mac' McGrath (uncredited)
Stanley Smith
Vocalist with Ralph Blackman's Band (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Water Sprayer (uncredited)
William H. Strauss
Mr. Abe Goldstein (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Dance Observer (uncredited)
Walter Walker
Bedford College Representative (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
Jailer (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 28, 1933
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
Hard to Handle (1933) is a pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.