Shoot the Works (film)
Shoot the Works is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon, Gene Fowler, Howard J. Green and Ben Hecht. It is based on the Gene Fowler and Harold Hecht 1932 play The Great Magoo. The film stars Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Arline Judge and William Frawley. The film was released on June 29, 1934, by Paramount Pictures, preceding by three days the most rigorously enforced version of the Hollywood Production Code, which came into effect on July 1, 1934.Plot
Cast
- Jack Oakie as Nicky Nelson
- Ben Bernie as Joe Davis
- Dorothy Dell as Lily Raquel
- Alison Skipworth as The Countess
- Roscoe Karns as Sailor Burke
- Arline Judge as Jackie Donovan
- William Frawley as Larry Hale
- Lew Cody as Axel Hanratty
- Paul Cavanagh as Alvin Ritchie
- Monte Vandergrift as Man from Board of Health
- Jill Dennett as Wanda
- Lee Kohlmar as Professor Jonas
- Tony Merlo as Headwaiter
- Ben Taggart as Detective
- Charles McAvoy as Cop
- Fred Lawrence as Crooner