The Pharmacist

IMDb link: 0024446
IMDb rating: 6.5 (956 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Short
Director: Arthur Ripley, W.C. Fields
Cast: Elise Cavanna, Marjorie Kane, Grady Sutton and others

Release date: 21 Apr 1933
Release year: 1933
Runtime: 19 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: republican, whining, prohibition era, teenage daughter, daughter hugs her father, chewing gum, bird seed, sulphur crested cockatoo, playing checkers, depression era

Plot:

A hard-working, hen-pecked pharmacist, harried by a shrewish spouse, dysfunctional family, and demanding clientele, maintains his patience and a stoic optimism by imbibing frequent martinis. His termagant wife and self-absorbed daughters show little appreciation of his efforts to keep his precarious business profitable by selling bootleg liquor under the counter despite the suspicions of the local sheriff.

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