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You're Telling Me! (1934)

You're Telling Me! poster
Directed by
Erle C. Kenton
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 11m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A hapless man tries to improve his life and win the approval of his community. He gets mixed up in a series of comic misunderstandings involving royalty.

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What happens

You're Telling Me! is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring W.C. Fields. It is a remake of the 1926 silent film So's Your Old Man, also starring Fields. Both films are adapted from the short story Mr. Bisbee’s Princess by Julian Leonard Street. It was released by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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