The Show Off (1934 film)
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Genre Comedy Language English | 6/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 17m Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1934 Cast (J. Aubrey Piper), (Amy Fisher Piper), (Joe Fisher), (Clara Harling), (Mr. 'Pa'), (Mrs. 'Ma') Similar movies The Show Off (1946) |
The Show-Off is a 1934 film. It was the first movie Spencer Tracy made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Based on the hit play by George Kelly, it made a profit of $78,000.
Plot
Out sailing one day, J. Aubrey Piper saves a man from drowning. He overhears an impressed Amy Fisher's remark and looks her up in New Jersey, irritating her family with his constant bragging but winning Amy, who marries him.
A humble railroad clerk, Aubrey keeps pretending to be a more important man. He spends lavishly, piling up so much debt that he and Amy must move in with her parents. He gets fired by his boss Preston for making a wild offer on a piece of land, overstepping his authority by far.
Amy is fed up and intends to leave him. Aubrey runs into her brother Joe, an inventor whose rust-prevention idea has received a firm offer of $5,000. Aubrey goes to the firm and demands Joe get $100,000 plus a 50% ownership interest. The company rescinds its offer entirely.
Everybody's fed up with Aubrey, but suddenly Joe rushes home to say the company's changed its mind, offering him $50,000 plus 20%. And the railroad property paid off, too, so Aubrey's offered his old job back, with a raise. He knows how lucky he's been and that he should just shut up, but he just can't.
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Radio adaptation
The Show-Off was adapted twice for radio by Lux Radio Theater. The first broadcast was on September 12, 1935, starring Joe E. Brown; the second was on February 2, 1943, starring Harold Peary.
References
The Show-Off (1934 film) WikipediaThe Show-Off (1934 film) IMDb The Show-Off (1934 film) themoviedb.org