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What! No Beer? (1933)

What! No Beer? poster
Directed by
Edward Sedgwick
Genre
burlesque
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 06m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to make a fortune during the end of Prohibition by selling bootleg beer. He teams up with a friend and they get into chaotic misadventures.

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What happens

What! No Beer? is a 1933 Pre-Code comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. MGM had also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and Speak Easily. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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