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Title: Laughing at Life (1933)
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| Victor McLaglen | ... |
Dennis P. McHale /
Burke /
Captain Hale
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| Conchita Montenegro | ... |
Panchita
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| William 'Stage' Boyd | ... |
Inspector Mason
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| Lois Wilson | ... |
Mrs. McHale
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| Henry B. Walthall | ... |
President Valenzuela
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| Regis Toomey | ... |
Pat Collins /
Mc Hale
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Ruth Hall | ... |
Alice Lawton
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| Ivan Lebedeff | ... |
Don Flavio Montenegro
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Hauseman
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| Tully Marshall | ... |
Stone
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| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... |
Prison Warden
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| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | ... |
Jones
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| Frankie Darro | ... |
Chango
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| Edmund Breese | ... |
Cabinet Officer
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| Dewey Robinson | ... |
Smith
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Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's. Written by Jim Beaver <[email protected]>
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USARelease Date:
12 July 1933 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
De lachende vrijbuiter See more »Filming Locations:
Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Dennis P. McHale: How do you know?
Mrs. McHale: Could you be so happy otherwise?
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This film was first telecast Sunday 17 December 1939 on New York City's pioneer television station W2XBS, which was commercially launched in mid-1941 as WNBT (Channel 1). Post WWII televiewers got their first look at it Tuesday 27 July 1948 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5), who relayed it to their newly launched WNHC (Channel 6) in New Haven, Connecticut. See more »Quotes
Mrs. McHale: Denny, you're in some sort of trouble again.Dennis P. McHale: How do you know?
Mrs. McHale: Could you be so happy otherwise?
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This poorly executed production stars Victor McLaglen (as Dennis Patrick McHale), a smiling rogue who does the titular "Laughing at Life" from the 1913 mining scene opening until 1933. It's interesting to consider Mr. McLaglen is the same impressive actor from Raoul Walsh's "What Price Glory" (1926) who would find his footing in more sound pictures with director John Ford. While McLaglen handles most of the action, Regis Toomey (as Pat Collins) and Frankie Darro (as Chango) emerge from the lengthy cast as important story and screen-time significant co-stars. The woefulness here is may not be suggested by an illustrious supporting cast, headed by veteran Henry B. Walthall.
**** Laughing at Life (7/12/33) Ford Beebe ~ Victor McLaglen, Regis Toomey, Frankie Darro, Henry B. Walthall