McFadden´s Flats

McFadden´s Flats

A RACE RIOT OF FUN!

1935 · 65 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.

Directed by Ralph Murphy

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Walter C. Kelly Dan McFadden
Andy Clyde Jock McTavish
Richard Cromwell Sandy MacTavish
Jane Darwell Nora McFadden
Betty Furness Molly McFadden
George Barbier Mr. Hall
Phyllis Brooks Mary Ellis Hall
Howard Wilson Robert Hall
Nella Walker Mrs. Hall
Frederick Burton Jefferson
Pat Moriarity Pat Malone
Herbert Evans Butler

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