The Merry Frinks

May 26, 1934

1h 8m

★ 3.7

a cavalcade of crackpots in a hurricane of hokum!

Overview

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Hattie 'Mom' Frink

Aline MacMahon

Uncle Newton P. Frink

Guy Kibbee

Joe 'Poppa' Frink

Hugh Herbert

Emmett Frink

Allen Jenkins

Amelia 'Grandma' Frink

Helen Lowell

Lucille Frink

Joan Wheeler

Norman Frink

Frankie Darro

Camille

Louise Beavers

Benny Lopez

Harold Huber

Oliver Gilfin

James Bush

Ramon Alvarez

Ivan Lebedeff

Mrs. Shinliver

Maidel Turner

Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.

6.5

The Girl on the Front Page

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The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

4.7

Children of Pleasure

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A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

6.6

Lady on a Train

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While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.

5.5

Bad Georgia Road

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New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.

6.1

The Private Eyes

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The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.

5.2

Champagne

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A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

6.3

Oscar and Lucinda

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After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

7.1

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dec 14, 1988

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

5.5

Spinout

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Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

6.0

Tea for Two

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In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.

6.7

You Gotta Stay Happy

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Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

6.0

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Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

0.0

Million Dollar Eel

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An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler (Toffolo).

5.0

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All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.

5.9

The Wedding Planner

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San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.

3.7

The Deadly Look of Love

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Janet Flanders is a small-town, unsophisticated young woman who is seduced by the fantasy of romantic love; she believes that someday her prince will come to sweep her away. Then she meets handsome Brett Becker; she believes she's found the man of her dreams -- little suspecting he is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite. Deep into her illusion that Brett loves her, she moves to Chicago to be closer to him, deluge him with calls and love notes, tells her family about her boyfriend Brett, and buys an engagement ring. Her obsession with him leads her from intrigue and eventually to murder.

6.8

Overboard

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Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.