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

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

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7.1

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6.0

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8.0

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5.8

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4.0

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7.0

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5.3

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5.6

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5.8

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4.6

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4.0

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3.7

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5.8

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6.8

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6.3

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6.5

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5.5

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6.2

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