Laughing at Life

Laughing at Life

71 mins | Drama, Adventure | July 12, 1933

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.

Laughing at Life

71 mins | Drama, Adventure | July 12, 1933

Laughing at Life
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers Mascot Pictures
Original title Laughing at Life
Directors Ford Beebe
Writers Prescott Chaplin, Ford Beebe

Cast

Victor McLaglen

as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale

Conchita Montenegro

as Panchita

William 'Stage' Boyd

as Inspector Mason (as William Boyd)

Noah Beery

as Hauseman

Regis Toomey

as Pat Collins / Mc Hale

Ruth Hall

as Alice Lawton

Dewey Robinson

as Smith

Ivan Lebedeff

as Don Flavio Montenegro

Mathilde Comont

as Mamacita

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Prison Warden

Tully Marshall

as Stone

Henry Armetta

as Fruit Vendor

Edmund Breese

as Cabinet Officer

Frankie Darro

as Chango

Otis Harlan

as Businessman

Buster Phelps

as Young Pat 'Denny' McHale

Arthur Hoyt

as Businessman

Pat O'Malley

as Detective Agency Official

William Desmond

as Military Cabinet Officer

Lloyd Whitlock

as WWI Commanding Officer

Philo McCullough

as Capt. Valdez

George Humbert

as Beverage Vendor