It's a Small World (1935)
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Synopsis of It's a Small World
It's a Small World was the latest in a long line of It Happened One Night clones, this time starring Spencer Tracy and Wendy Barrie as rough approximations of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It all begins when spoiled socialite Jane Dale (Barrie) and abrasive lawyer Bill Shevlin (Tracy) "meet cute" in a small-town auto accident. The couple is arrested by Julius B. Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), the local judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, notary public and everything else. Clummerhorn subjects Jane and Bill to a farcical trial, which is continually interrupted by a wide variety of oddball characters and silly emergencies. In the course of events, our hero and heroine fall in love? But that's not the end of the story by a long shot! Future singing star Dick Foran plays a motorcycle cop, while perennial Abraham Lincoln impersonator Frank McGlynn Sr. shares an amusing scene with his real-life son Frank McGlynn Jr. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of It's a Small World
- Spencer Tracy - Bill Shevlin
- Raymond Walburn - Judge Julius B. Clummerhorn
- Astrid Allwyn - Nancy Naylor
- Charles Sellon - Cyclone
- Belle Daube - Mrs. Dale
- Bill Gillis - Snake Brown, Sr
- Harold Minjir - Freddie Thompson
- Wendy Barrie - Jane Dale
- Virginia Sale - Lizzie
- Irving Bacon - Cal
- Dick Foran - Motor Cop
- Frank McGlynn, Jr. - Snake Brown III
- Ed Brady - Buck Bogardus
- Charles Moore - Doorman
- Director(s):
- Irving Cummings
- Writer(s):
- Gladys Lehman, Sam Hellman
- Producer(s):
- Edward W. Butcher
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