Don't Tell the Wife

Mar 5, 1937

1h 2m

★ 5.0

HIS GOLD MINE STOCK WENT SKY HIGH- By Mistake!

Overview

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Malcom "Dinky" Winthrop

Guy Kibbee

Nancy Dorsey

Una Merkel

Steve Dorsey

Lynne Overman

Major Manning

Thurston Hall

Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Insperator Mallory

Frank M. Thomas

Larry 'Horace' Tucker

William Demarest

Annie Howell

Lucille Ball

Mike Callahan

Harry Tyler

Warden

George Irving

Salesman Hagar

Bradley Page

Sam Taylor

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