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Released October 11, 1935
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
80.33 min. (Feature Film)

Two con men (Jack Benny and Ted Healy) specialize in fixing horse races and boxing matches. Calvin Churchill (Benny) is conscious stricken with patriotism when he hears that the IRS is after back taxes on gambling winnings. Hoping to make amends, and with an IRS investigator (Nat Pendleton) hot on the trail, he and Clip (Healy) head for Desert Springs, CA where Calvin's estranged wife is a tennis instructor at a resort spa. Posing as an entrepreneur and hot air ballooning adventurer, Churchill is dumbfounded to meet an aeronautic industrialist who wants Cal and Clip to pilot his new stratosphere orbiter... and other guests offering thousands in corporate sponsorships for the test flight. The duo find themselves faced with the dilemma of risking their lives for a fortune, or giving themselves up for prosecution.

Although Jack Benny headlines the cast, he plays it straight as the good-hearted and love-sick conman, while Healy and Pendleton provide the laughs.

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Avg. Rating: [7.00/10]
 
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Jack Benny
Calvin Churchill

Ted Healy
Clip McGurk

Nat Pendleton
Henry Potke

Una Merkel
Alice Lane Churchill

Grant Mitchell
W. R. Gridley

Mary Carlisle
Grace Gridley

Harvey Stephens
Sidney Kendall

Clarence H. Wilson
Amos Whipple

Purnell Pratt
Horace McNab

Larry Wheat
Mr. Tubbs

Al Shean
Mr. Johnson

Phillips Smalley
Mr. Winterby

Johnny Arthur
Jones, photographer

Charles Trowbridge
Alfred Drake

Louis Natheaux
Race track clerk

Ernie Adams
Counterman

Herbert Ashley
Boxing bettor

Lee Phelps
Federal investigator

Stanley Andrews
Federal investigator

Tyler Brooke
Hotel clerk

Robert Gordon
Elevator operator

Sherry Hall
Trash scrounger

Jim Thorpe
Indian father

Dean Reisner
Indian brave

Maude Allen
Mrs. Burlington

Ralph Bushman
Martin, hotel clerk

John 'Skins' Miller
Elmer, masseur

Richard Powell
Fritz, masseur

James Conaty
Nightclub patron

Dale Van Sickel
Nightclub patron

Jay Eaton
Nightclub patron

Jack Byron
Nightclub patron

Ronald R. Rondell
Nightclub patron

Broderick O'Farrell
Asst. cashier

Shirley Ross
Mary, cigar counter clerk

Isabelle Keith
Guest at money auction

Edmund Mortimer
Guest at money auction

Jean Gunn
Little girl with autograph book

Harold Miller
Man in restaurant

Sheldon Jett
Passenger on bus

Jim Toney
Curly, house detective

Cyril Ring
Drake's assistant

Bill Dooley
Taxi driver

Don Brodie
Reporter

Harry Lee
Reporter

William Tannen
Pilot, scene deleted

Olaf Hytten
Tod Brodie, scene deleted

Claude King
Sir Phillips, scene deleted

Unidentified IT'S IN THE AIR 5
Switchboard operators

Unidentified IT'S IN THE AIR 15
Double-decker passengers


Harry Rapf
Producer

Byron Morgan
Story and Screenplay

Lew Lipton
Story and Screenplay

William S. Gray
Film Editor

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director

Paul Crawley
Associate Art Director

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Dolly Tree
Costume Design

William Axt
Musical Score


















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