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Released June 13, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
68 min. (Feature Film)

Local racketeer Speedy Miller (Broderick Crawford) takes over Mr. Amalfi's (Leo Carrillo) shoe store and turns it into a backroom gambling parlor, and buys himself a pair of too-small shoes... tight shoes, that set off a chain reaction of misfortune. Miller loses a gambling bet for his boss "The Brain," the secret identity of newspaper publisher Horace Grover, and then loses his girlfriend actress Sybil Ash. Jimmy Rupert, the clerk who sold Miller the tight shoes, exposes the shoe store's gambling operation and winds up running against Grover's city councilman stooge Honest John Beebe. Miller is held accountable and loses his position in "The Brain's" operation, and Grover begins setting up a new stooge with Rupert. When Rupert winds up engaged to Sybil, Miller arranges a little revenge... with his own gift of "tight shoes" for the prospective groom.

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Broderick Crawford
Speedy Miller

John Howard
Jimmy Rupert

Binnie Barnes
Sybil Ash

Samuel S. Hinds
Horace Grover

Richard Lane
Allan McGrath

Robert Emmett O'Connor
Honest John Beebe

Leo Carrillo
Mr. Almalfi

Sarah Padden
Mrs. Rupert

Emmett Vogan
Jackson Carter

Don Terry
Haystack

Tom Dugan
Professor D

Eddie Foster
Charlie the Gyp

Selmer Jackson
District Attorney

Kathryn Sheldon
Rupert's aunt

Louise Carver
Sybil's maid

Hal Price
Policeman

George Guhl
Policeman

Billy Bletcher
Little man

Eddie Hall
Race track ticket taker

Johnny Arthur
Chapel manager

Stanley Mann
Stanley, chapel organist

Joe Devlin
Truck driver

Chuck Morrison
Truck driver

Billy Wayne
Reporter

David Oliver
Customer

Ralph Peters
Passerby

Betty Jane Graham
Blonde schoolgirl

Roberta Smith
Mary, schoolgirl

Mary Kelley
Portly woman

Lester Dorr
Man at McGrath's table

Edmund Mortimer
Man at McGrath's table

Larry McGrath
Fight manager at McGrath's table


Jules Levey
Producer

Damon Runyon
Original Story

Art Arthur
Screenplay

Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography

Otto Ludwig
Film Editor

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Ralph M. DeLacy
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

Robert Pritchard
Sound Technician

Hans J. Salter
Musical Director

Frank Skinner
Original Music


















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