The Passionate Plumber

The Passionate Plumber

73 mins | Comedy | Feb. 6, 1932

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

The Passionate Plumber

73 mins | Comedy | Feb. 6, 1932

The Passionate Plumber
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Passionate Plumber
Directors Edward Sedgwick
Writers Frederick Lonsdale, Laurence E. Johnson, Ralph Spence, Jacques Deval

Cast

Buster Keaton

as Elmer E. Tuttle

Jimmy Durante

as Julius J. McCracken

Polly Moran

as Albine

Irene Purcell

as Patricia Alden

Gilbert Roland

as Tony Lagorce

Mona Maris

as Nina Estrados

Maude Eburne

as Aunt Charlotte

Henry Armetta

as Bouncer

Paul Porcasi

as Paul Le Maire

Jean Del Val

as Chauffeur

August Tollaire

as General Bouschay

Edward Brophy

as Man Outside Beauty Parlor (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

as Hunter with Rifle at Duel (uncredited)