The Old Fashioned Way

IMDb link: 0025590
IMDb rating: 7.3 (1,241 votes)
Genres: Comedy
Director: W.C. Fields, William Beaudine
Cast: Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen and others

Release date: 13 Jul 1934
Release year: 1934
Runtime: 71 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: theater troupe, actor, actress, stage actor, stage actress, father daughter relationship, train passenger, sleeping car, upper berth, croquet mallet

Plot:

The Great McGonigle's traveling theatrical troupe are staying at a boarding house, preparing to put on a production of "The Drunkard." Cleopatra Pepperday offers to put up money for the show--if she can have a part. Little Albert Wendelschaffer torments McGonigle all through lunch; and despite being pursued by several sheriffs, McGonigle is able to keep going and see his daughter Betty happily married.

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