You Don't Know the Half of It

You Don't Know the Half of It

1929 · 8 min · ★ 5.0 · Comedy

A comedic team. The Ann seems to try and come across as a Mae West type. Jay plays the role of the straight partner.

Directed by Murray Roth · Written by Jay Brennan

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

1h 14m together

You Don't Know the Half of It

Flying Hostess

Both from Murray Roth.

More from Murray RothSee all →

Faint HeartFaint Heart · 1929
Faint Heart
10.01929
Movie
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.
Romance in the AirRomance in the Air · 1936
Romance in the Air
10.01936
MovieComedyMusic
Flying HostessFlying Hostess · 1936
Flying Hostess
10.01936
MovieDrama
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Don't Bet on LoveDon't Bet on Love · 1933
Don't Bet on Love
8.01933
MovieDramaComedy
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
The OperationThe Operation · 1930
The Operation
7.51930
MovieComedy
Patient Charlie McCarthy, running a fever, is tended by Doctor Edgar Bergen. Will a tonsillectomy cure him?
Chinatown SquadChinatown Squad · 1935
Chinatown Squad
7.51935
MovieCrimeAction
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Believe It or Not #2Believe It or Not #2 · 1930
Believe It or Not #2
7.51930
Movie
The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail. At the time he received about one million pieces of mail per year, more than any other individual. He shows the audience several of the more oddly addressed envelopes. These include one addressed in Morse code; one in Hebrew, one using the naval flag code; and one with a small tear to the left of a picture of Robert E. Lee (i.e., "Rip + Lee" = Ripley). A U.S. marshal then enters the office and arrests Ripley. Vitaphone No. 1038.
She's DangerousShe's Dangerous · 1937
She's Dangerous
7.01937
MovieDramaCrime
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Hollywood BoundHollywood Bound · 1928
Hollywood Bound
7.01928
MovieComedy
A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.
Believe It or Not #3Believe It or Not #3 · 1930
Believe It or Not #3
7.01930
Movie
Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels. Vitaphone No. 1053.
My Bag o' TricksMy Bag o' Tricks · 1929
My Bag o' Tricks
6.81929
MovieComedyMusic
A vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous shawl. She tells of a visit to a friend who has a five-year old son. The mother tells Trixie a tale of stepping out on her husband, and to conceal the story from the boy, spells out key words. By the story's end, mom is in for a surprise and Trixie has a moral for us. Then, the hat and shawl come off, a base fiddle comes out, and Trixie sings us a comic song about her first two husbands.
Harold TeenHarold Teen · 1934
Harold Teen
6.51934
MovieComedyRomance
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Believe It or Not #1Believe It or Not #1 · 1930
Believe It or Not #1
6.31930
MovieDocumentary
Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word tract she reads in 24 seconds. Next a woman telephones to question his assertion that you can walk through a hole in a cigarette paper, but he demonstrates how when she arrives. Other oddities follow. Vitaphone No. 1005.
Dancing on the CeilingDancing on the Ceiling · 1937
Dancing on the Ceiling
6.01937
MovieMusicComedy
A young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. Cute chorus girls attend to the many male customers, and the girl the young man was following is revealed to be the dentist. She gives the young man anesthetic gas and he dreams the dentist and her troupe of nurses are dancing on the ceiling.
Tramp, Tramp, TrampTramp, Tramp, Tramp · 1926
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
5.91926
MovieComedyRomance
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
Lights of New YorkLights of New York · 1928
Lights of New York
5.41928
MovieCrimeDrama
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter