On Again—Off Again

On Again—Off Again

Those Goofy Guys on the Roar Path!

NR 1937 · 68 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

Directed by Edward F. Cline · Written by Benny Rubin

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Bert Wheeler William Hobbs
Robert Woolsey Claude Horton
Marjorie Lord Florence Cole
Esther Muir Nettie Horton
Patricia Wilder Gertie Green
Paul Harvey Mr. Applegate
Russell Hicks George Dilwig
Maxine Jennings Miss Meeker
Kitty McHugh Miss Parker
George Meeker Tony Toler
Hal K. Dawson Sanford
Pat Flaherty Mr. Green

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