She Couldn't Take It
She Couldn't Take It

She Couldn't Take It

"Listen sweetheart - you're going to get a lesson in love!"

4.5(2 votes)
1935
1h 17m
Comedy

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

Production

Columbia Pictures

Cast

George Raft

George Raft

Joe "Spot" Ricardi

Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett

Carol Van Dyke

Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly

Daniel Van Dyke

Billie Burke

Billie Burke

Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke

Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Nolan

Tex

Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

"Fingers" Boston

James Blakeley

James Blakeley

Tony Van Dyke

Alan Mowbray

Alan Mowbray

Alan Bartlett

William Tannen

William Tannen

Cesar

Donald Meek

Donald Meek

Uncle Wyndersham

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