The Nut Farm (1935)
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This amusing lampoon of low-budget filmmaking is set in motion when fly-by-night entrepreneur Bradley Page talks small-towner Mrs. Bent (Betty Alden) into financing a movie. Mrs. Bent's shiftless brother Willie Barton (Wallace Ford) is appointed director of the film, which turns out to be a big-time bomb. The day is saved when the film, a "serious" desert melodrama, is re-edited as a slapstick comedy. The winner in this instance is Mrs. Bent's long-suffering husband (Oscar Apfel), who'd wanted all along to invest his wife's money in the nut farm of the title. Based on a 1929 play by John C. Brownell, The Nut Farm is an interesting precursor to such later moviemaking satires as After the Fox and Sweet Liberty. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Melville W. Brown
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Nut Farm
This amusing lampoon of low-budget filmmaking is set in motion when fly-by-night entrepreneur Bradley Page talks small-towner Mrs. Bent (Betty Alden) into financing a movie. Mrs. Bent's shiftless brother Willie Barton (Wallace Ford) is appointed director of the film, which turns out to be a big-time bomb. The day is saved when the film, a "serious" desert melodrama, is re-edited as a slapstick comedy. The winner in this instance is Mrs. Bent's long-suffering husband (Oscar Apfel), who'd wanted all along to invest his wife's money in the nut farm of the title. Based on a 1929 play by John C. Brownell, The Nut Farm is an interesting precursor to such later moviemaking satires as After the Fox and Sweet Liberty. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 67 mins
Complete Cast of The Nut Farm
- Betty Alden - Mrs. Bent
- Wallace Ford - Willie Barton
- Arnold Gray - Van Norton
- Lorin Raker - Biddleford
- Florence Roberts - Mrs. Barton
- Spencer Charters - Sliscomb Landlord
- Joan Gale - Agatha
- Bradley Page - Holland
- Oscar Apfel - Mr. Bent
- Director(s):
- Melville W. Brown
- Writer(s):
- George Waggner
- Producer(s):
- Trem Carr, William T. Lackey
- Categories:
- Comedy
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