Broadminded

Aug 1, 1931

1h 12m

★ 3.7

When he opens his eyes he looks for girls! When he opens his mouth...you'll look for laughs...and get plenty!

Overview

Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

First National Pictures

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Cast

Ossie Simpson

Joe E. Brown

Constance Palmer

Ona Munson

Pancho Arango

Bela Lugosi

Gertie Gardner

Thelma Todd

Jack Hackett

William Collier Jr.

Penny Packer

Marjorie White

John J. Hackett Sr.

Holmes Herbert

Mabel Robinson

Margaret Livingston

Aunt Polly

Grayce Hampton

Hotel Guest on Veranda

Bill Elliott

Casper

George Grandee

1st Policeman

Jack Grey

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

5.5

Good-bye Love

Nov 9, 1933

A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.

7.5

Let's Go Native

Aug 15, 1930

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

5.0

Laughter

Sep 24, 1930

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.

5.3

But the Flesh Is Weak

Apr 9, 1932

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

5.6

Whistling in the Dark

Jan 21, 1933

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

0.0

The Second Floor Mystery

Apr 26, 1930

In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.

5.5

Only Saps Work

Dec 5, 1930

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.

4.6

Borrowed Wives

Aug 20, 1930

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

4.7

Golden Dawn

Jun 14, 1930

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.

7.0

True to the Navy

May 25, 1930

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.

5.1

Strictly Dishonorable

Dec 1, 1931

A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.

4.0

The Vagabond Lover

Dec 1, 1929

A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

6.1

Topaze

Feb 24, 1933

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

5.9

Smart Woman

Sep 12, 1931

A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

6.0

The Wiser Sex

Mar 14, 1932

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

7.5

Sitting Pretty

Nov 23, 1933

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.

6.0

Queen High

Aug 23, 1930

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.

5.5

Young Man of Manhattan

Apr 19, 1930

Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.

4.0

Sing and Like It

Apr 20, 1934

While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue