His Exciting Night
Cast & Crew
Gus Meins
Charles Ruggles
Richard Lane
"slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom
Marion Martin
Stepin Fetchit
Film Details
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Synopsis
Although he is a loyal employee, Adam Tripp's boss, Homer Carslake, suspects he will steal the company's most valuable account, the Park Avenue Bakers, when he marries into the family. On the day of Adam's wedding, Carslake concocts a scheme to blacken Adam's name with his in-laws. Carslake orders his employees, Bill Stewart and McGill, to hire blonde actress Gypsy McCoy, who is married to the burly "Doc" McCoy, for a "badger" game. In the middle of the wedding reception, Stewart wisks Adam away to his apartment, convincing him his bride Anne will be joining him there for a private honeymoon away from Anne's overbearing aunt Elizabeth. Adam obliges unsuspectingly and is surprised to find Gypsy waiting for him. Doc then arrives to make sure Gypsy's flirtatious histrionics don't go too far, and is about to beat up Adam when he and Gypsy escape in a cab. The cabbie, however, is an eccentric aspiring singer. When he fails to hit a certain note, he decides to throw himself, cab and all, in the river. Adam and Gypsy escape, but everyone assumes them dead. The next morning, Adam arrives at the Baker home and is followed by Doc, who is about to kill him for sleeping with Gypsy. When Adam fabricates a story about being with his blonde friend Reggie, however, Adam and Doc become friends. Gypsy arrives to pick up her purse from Adam, which contains the fifty dollars Carslake paid her, but Aunt Elizabeth throws her out. Gypsy later goes to Adam's apartment to cook him a hot meal and is found by Anne, who leaves in a huff. Gypsy then convinces Adam to fight for Anne, after which Doc enters to make up with Gypsy and reveals Carslake's scheme. Doc encourages Adam to show Carslake some muscle. Meanwhile, Carslake, believing Adam dead, is planning to skip town. Adam goes to the police, however, and transforms his shy personality into an assertive one by ordering Carslake to sign an affidavit certifying that he was completely responsible for the wedding night fiasco. After the police enter and intimidate Carslake into signing the affidavit, Carslake fires Adam. Adam goes to the Bakers' and, catching Anne and Aunt Elizabeth leaving for a trip, hands Aunt Elizabeth the affidavit and insists he and Anne take the Bakers' chartered plane to their honeymoon. When the plane takes off, Adam discovers that the pilot is the mad taxi driver. The driver sings a scale and Adam joins in.
Director
Gus Meins
Cast
Charles Ruggles
Richard Lane
"slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom
Marion Martin
Stepin Fetchit
Ona Munson
Raymond Parker
Frances Robinson
Georgia Caine
Regis Toomey
Stanley Hughes
Benny Baker
Eddie Acuff
Virginia Sale
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Frank Sully
Mary Field
Kernan Cripps
Jack Egan
James Morton
Lind Hayes
Gay Wynn
Marion "bud" Wolfe
J. M. Farley
Ronnie Rondell
Ralph Brooks
Crew
F. Betterworth
Willis Blume
J. Bolger
Bernard B. Brown
Philip Cahn
Ed Case
Lester Cole
C. Cowie
Peggy Dale
Edward Eliscu
Bill Ely
E. Estabrook
Pat C. Flick
Alice Furness
D. Gartenson
R. A. Gausman
Ken Goldsmith
Morton Grant
Pat Harper
Buddy Harris
Gordon Head
Phil Karlstein
Bill Knudsen
Milton Krasner
George Kussell
Joseph Lapis
Bob Lazlo
Helen Mccaffrey
Emily Moore
F. Moran
Ed O'toole
Jack Otterson
Jack Pierce
Joe Ploski
Charles Previn
Eddie Regan
Richard H. Riedel
Henry Sharp
Cliff Shirpser
Frank Skinner
Eric Taylor
Michael Walsh
Seward Webb
Vera West
Muriel Youmans
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Notes
The credits and plot for this film were taken from a studio cutting continuity and dialogue script. According to Universal production files in the USC Cinema-Television Library, the working title for this film was Adam's Evening. In the trailer to this film, Charlie Ruggles' character is portrayed as a groom who turns out to be a romantic scoundrel, but in the actual film, Adam is completely innocent. According to reviews, Ona Munson made her first screen appearance after a five year absence in this picture. After appearing in three Warner Bros. films in 1931, she took a leave from pictures to appear on Broadway. The Variety review claims the script was written with Ruggles in mind.
