Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released July 28, 1939
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Columbia Pictures
63 min. (Feature Film)
63 min. (Feature Film)
State Police detective Norman Craig and his partner go undercover in the penetentiary, investigating inmate suspects for an unsolved, six-month-old bank robbery. Craig uses the identity of a deceased inmate, Red Murray, and things go horribly wrong when his undercover partner is murdered in his cell. Complications abound when Sheila Murray arrives to visit her "brother," and she finds herself in the web of undercover deception. When Craig plays the robbery suspects against each other to find his partner's killer, he and Sheila are unexpectedly caught up in a prison break plot.
Shemp Howard appears briefly in a couple scenes as a mess hall trustee.
Avg. Rating: 
[7.50/10]
[7.50/10]
Brian Donlevy
Norman Craig / 'Red Murray'
Jacqueline Wells
Sheila Murray
Joseph A. Crehan
Warden O'Neil
Paul Fix
Petey Ryan
George Lloyd
Marty Conroy
Dick Curtis
Captain Simmons
Richard Fiske
Agent Lyman
George Anderson
State Atty. Gen. Matthews
Edward LeSaint
Dr. Mason
Al Ferguson
Oliver Thorsen / 'Two Gun Kelly'
Abe Reynolds
Prusiber
Ernie Adams
Voight, warden's trustee
George McKay
Sid Walsh, convict
George C. Pearce
Dad Prentis, convict
Lester Dorr
Floyd, convict
Al Hill
Betts, convict
Irving Bacon
Convict in prison yard
Joe Palma
Convict in prison yard
John Tyrrell
Martin, print shop convict
Shemp Howard
Mess hall trustee
Dick Botiller
Graves, convict in escape attempt
Edmund Cobb
Convict in escape attempt
Cy Schindell
Convict
C. L. Sherwood
Convict
Kit Guard
Convict
Jack Evans
Convict
Eddie Foster
Convict
Earle D. Bunn
Machine gunner tower guard
Charles Hamilton
Parker, print shop guard
Ralph Dunn
Evans, prison guard
Ky Robinson
Slade, prison guard
Harry Strang
Hastings, prison guard
James Craig
Jenkins, prison guard
Charles McMurphy
Prison guard
Ethan Laidlaw
Prison guard
Douglas Williams
Prison guard
Al Herman
Prison guard
Ed Brady
Prison guard
Del Lawrence
Turnkey
Charles Barton
Director
Arthur T. Horman
Original Screenplay
Leslie T. White
Original Screenplay
Allen G. Siegler
Director of Photography
Richard Fantl
Film Editor
Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director
Louis Silvers
Music
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