Mama Runs Wild

Mama Runs Wild

A SYMPHONY OF SILLINESS! Everything Goes 'Round In Circles When Mama Sets The Pace!

1937 · 67 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy, Family, Romance

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).

Directed by Ralph Staub · Written by Hal Yates

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Cast

Mary Boland Alice Summers
Ernest Truex Ernest Summers
William Henry Paul Fowler
Lynne Roberts Edith Summers (as Lynn Roberts)
Max Terhune Applegate
Joseph Crehan Tom Fowler
Dorothy Page Mrs. Hayes
Dewey Robinson Greengable
Julius Tannen C. Preston Simms
Sammy McKim Boy
John Sheehan Snodey
James C. Morton Adams

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