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He Couldn't Say No

HE GAMBLED ON LIFE...and won first prize in a love sweepstakes
Mar 19, 1938 · 57m
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Crime
Adventure
Comedy

PLOT

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

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CAST

Frank McHugh
Lambert T. Hunkins
Jane Wyman
Violet Coney
Cora Witherspoon
Mrs. Coney
Diana Lewis
Iris Mabby
Berton Churchill
Senator Mabby
Chester Clute
Musgrave
William Haade
Slug
Tom Kennedy
Dimples
Directed by Lewis Seiler

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
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Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Country
US

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