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Released February 14, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
60 min. (Feature Film)

Scatter-brained investment broker Hugh Mansfield (Hugh Herbert) learns that he's losing money for his clients. And, his charitable contributions and bankrolling of the neighborhood kids' newspaper has drained half of his nephew's trust fund... a $10 million trust that must be paid off the next day on nephew's wedding day. Hoping to stay out of jail, Mansfield has himself committed to a sanitarium in hope that he can plead insanity. Mixups ensue when nephew John Mansfield is mistaken for his uncle, and escapes with a nurse into the hands of a couple gambling racketeers (Shemp Howard & Richard Lane), who hold him for a ransom that Hugh can't pay.

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Hugh Herbert
Hugh Mansfield

Lewis Howard
John Mansfield

Jeanne Kelly
Madge Reilly

Kathryn Adams
Gloria Mitchell

Richard Lane
Slugs Bennett

Shemp Howard
Stinky Fink

Anne Nagel
Miss Burke

Iris Adrian
Switchboard operator

Dix Davis
Newsboy

Eddie Hall
Office worker

Donnie Dunagan
Little boy

Harry Burns
Balloon vendor

Charles Coleman
Mansfield's butler

Lester Dorr
Taxi driver

Riley Hill
Sanitarium desk clerk

Harry Semels
Man in sanitarium

Charles Halton
Dr. Stephanowsky

Emmett Vogan
Dr. Bergenson

Edward Earle
Dr. Allen

Arthur 'Pat' West
Gas station attendant

Dewey Robinson
Slot machine rigger

Bob Pepper
Handsome

Alec Craig
Justice of the Peace

William Alston
Costume clerk

Charles Miller
'George Washington'

Douglas Wright
Horse act specialty

Ray Cooke
2nd taxi driver

Edward Gargan
Officer Muldoon

Harry Tenbrook
Electrician


Otis Garrett
Original Story

Hal Hudson
Original Story

Alex Gottlieb
Screenplay

Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography

Milton Carruth
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Harold MacArthur
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

Hal Bumbaugh
Sound Technician

Hans J. Salter
Musical Director

Hans J. Salter
Original Music

Frank Skinner
Original Music

Charles Henderson
Original Music


















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