It Can Be Done

It Can Be Done

The story of a youth who dropped his inferiority complex and thereafter found most things could BE DONE.

1929 · 70 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

Jerry Willard, a clerk in a publishing house who is possessed of a massive inferiority complex, is fired from his job and, on the way out of the office, is mistaken for the boss, Watson, by Anne Rogers, the daughter of an author.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer · Written by Joseph F. Poland

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Glenn Tryon Jerry Willard
Sue Carol Anne Rogers
Jack Egan Ben Smith
Richard Carle Watson
Tom O'Brien Detective
Richard Carlyle Rogers

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