Wild Money

Wild Money

71 mins | Comedy | July 9, 1937

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.

Wild Money

71 mins | Comedy | July 9, 1937

Wild Money
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
Producers Paramount
Original title Wild Money
Directors Louis King
Writers Eddie Welch, Marguerite Roberts, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Paul Gallico

Cast

Edward Everett Horton

as P.E. Dodd

Louise Campbell

as Judy McGowan

Lynne Overman

as Perry Brown

Lucien Littlefield

as Bill Hawkins

Esther Dale

as Jenny Hawkins

Porter Hall

as Bill Court

Benny Baker

as Al Vogel

Ruth Coleman

as Mrs. West

Louis Natheaux

as Cyrus K. West

Billy Lee

as Malcolm West

Howard M. Mitchell

as Sheriff Jones

William Burgess

as Spreckett (as William Burress)

Gertrude Short

as Miss Green