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Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1942)

"YOU'LL BUST YOUR SIDES A-LAFFIN'"

3.0/10 1h 4m May 09, 1942
Comedy Fantasy

While serving time in county prison, Wallingford sees a story in the newspaper that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a mansionfrom his recently deceased uncle. Hearing this, Schenectady dreams of luxury.

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Movie Details

Original Title Mr. Washington Goes to Town
Original Language EN
Budget $15,000
Status Released
Popularity 0.1

Cast

Mantan Moreland
Mantan Moreland
Schenectady Washington
Popularity: 0.8
F.E. Miller
F.E. Miller
Wallingford Montgomery
Popularity: 0.1
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Marguerite Whitten
Lady Queenie
Popularity: 0.1
Maceo Bruce Sheffield
Maceo Bruce Sheffield
Brutus Blake
Popularity: 0.3
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Arthur Ray
J. Bennington Blackstone, crooked lawyer
Popularity: 0.2
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Zerita Stepteau
[as Zerita Steptoe] Mrs. Blake
Popularity: 0.1
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Monte Hawley
Jose Don Juan Romero Jefferson Stiletto
Popularity: 0.2
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Cleo Desmond
Old Crone Hotel Resident
Popularity: 0.8
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Clarence Moorehouse
The Gorilla
Popularity: 0.1
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Vernon McCalla
Invisible Man
Popularity: 0.1
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John Lester Johnson
Bodyless Head
Popularity: 0.9
Florence O'Brien
Florence O'Brien
Chambermaid
Popularity: 0.5

Key Crew

Director William Beaudine, Jed Buell
Producer Jed Buell, James K. Friedrich, Maceo Bruce Sheffield
Editor William Faris
Screenplay Lex Neal, Walter Weems

Production

Dixie National Pictures Inc.

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Keywords

hotel dreams gorilla crooked lawyer disembodied head inheritance all black cast loan shark beautician jailed jealous wife chase scene vanishing man headless man jewish accented black man strange people

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Details
Release Date May 9, 1942
Runtime 1h 4m
Budget $15,000
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.1
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