Diplomaniacs
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33% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy Country United States | 6.9/10 IMDb Director William A. Seiter Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Release date April 29, 1933 (1933-04-29) Writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screen play), Henry Myers (screen play), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (from an original story by) Music director Max Steiner, Roy Webb, Edward Eliscu, Harry Akst Screenplay Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers Cast Bert Wheeler (Willy), Robert Woolsey (Hercules), Marjorie White (Dolores), Phyllis Barry (Fifi), Louis Calhern (Winkelreid), Hugh Herbert (Chinaman) Similar movies Broadway Scandals, The Camera Speaks, Prometheus... banker, The Unchastened Woman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diplomaniacs is a 1933 American pre-Code film starring Wheeler and Woolsey. The film in noted for its absurdist political satire, somewhat in the manner of Million Dollar Legs or Duck Soup, both of which were released within a year of Diplomaniacs.
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Plot
The film concerns itself with the adventures of two men who have set up a failing business as barbers on an Indian reservation. When they are sent by the tribe as representatives to a peace conference in Europe, unbeknownst to them they face constant threats from other attendees. In particular, a group of armaments manufacturers want to ensure that the peace conference is a failure, and do everything they can to sabotage it.
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Box office
According to RKO records, the film made a profit of $65,000.
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