The read
It runs a compact 1h 12m.
Synopsis
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Ratings
IMDb5/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- A. Edward SutherlandDirector
- Joseph L. MankiewiczScreenplay
Cast
- Jack OakieMarco Perkins
- Mary BrianCynthia Brown
- Richard 'Skeets' GallagherChick Hathaway
- Olive BordenGloria Staunton
- Charles SellonJim Perkins
- Cyril RingRalph Williams
- E.H. CalvertHenderson
- James GibsonHoward
- Henry RoquemoreSmith
- William BechtelSchultz
- Richard CummingsMcGinnis
- Jack Byron'Knockout' Johnson
Stills
Themes
mechaniccountry clubpolo