Man on the Flying Trapeze

Aug 3, 1935

1h 6m

★ 6.1

Come to the crowning of America's comedy King!

Overview

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Man on the Flying Trapeze Trailers

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Cast

Ambrose Wolfinger

W.C. Fields

Hope Wolfinger

Mary Brian

Leona Wolfinger

Kathleen Howard

Claude Neselrode

Grady Sutton

Mrs. Cordelia Neselrode

Vera Lewis

Mr. Peabody

Lucien Littlefield

President Malloy

Oscar Apfel

Adolph Berg

Lew Kelly

'Willie' the Weasel

Tammany Young

'Legs' Garnett

Walter Brennan

Patrolman

Edward Gargan

Patrolman

James Burke

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