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Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
33 audience votes
Key crew
- Preston SturgesDirector
- Preston SturgesScreenplay
- Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Harold LloydHarold Diddlebock
- Jimmy ConlinWormy
- Raymond WalburnE.J. Waggleberry
- Rudy ValleeLynn Sargent
- Edgar KennedyJake the Bartender
- Margaret HamiltonFlora
- Franklin PangbornFormfit Franklin
- Jack NortonJames R. Smoke
- Arline JudgeManicurist
- Frances RamsdenFrances Otis
- Lionel StanderMax
- Robert DudleyRobert McDuffy
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Themes
bankerclerkcircusamerican footballlionblackoutcocktail