Hard to Handle (film)

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Hard to Handle
Directed by	Mervyn LeRoy
Written by	Robert Lord Wilson Mizner Houston Branch (original story)
Starring	James Cagney
Cinematography	Barney McGill
Edited by	William Holmes
Music by	Cliff Hess (uncredited)
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	January 28, 1933 (1933-01-28)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Hard to Handle (1933) is a pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

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• James Cagney as Myron C. 'Lefty' Merrill
• Mary Brian as Ruth Waters
• Allen Jenkins as Marathon radio announcer
• Ruth Donnelly as Lil Waters
• Claire Dodd as Marlene Reeves
• Robert McWade as Charles G. Reeves
• Berton Churchill as Col. H.D.X. Wells
• Emma Dunn as Mrs. Hawks
• Gavin Gordon as John Hayden
• Sterling Holloway as Andy Heaney
• William H. Strauss as Mr. Abe Goldstein
• Bess Flowers as Merrill's Secretary

• Hard to Handle at the TCM Movie Database
• Hard to Handle at IMDb

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