Road Show

Road Show

87 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 18, 1941

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.

Road Show

87 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 18, 1941

Road Show
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Hal Roach Studios
Original title Road Show
Directors Hal Roach
Writers Harry Langdon, Arnold Belgard, Eric Hatch, Mickell Novack

Cast

Adolphe Menjou

as Col. Carleton Carroway

Carole Landis

as Penguin Moore

John Hubbard

as Drogo Gaines

Charles Butterworth

as Harry Whitman

Patsy Kelly

as Jinx

George E. Stone

as Indian

Margaret Roach

as Priscilla

Polly Ann Young

as Helen Newton

Edward Norris

as Ed Newton

Florence Bates

as Mrs. Newton

Willie Best

as Willie

Shemp Howard

as Moe Parker (uncredited)

Lee 'Lasses' White

as Constable (uncredited)

Clarence Wilson

as Sheriff (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Member of Carnival Audience (uncredited)