Professor Beware
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Casts & Crew
Harold Lloyd
Phyllis Welch
Raymond Walburn
Lionel Stander
William Frawley
Thurston Hall
Cora Witherspoon
Sterling Holloway
Mary Lawrence
Arthur Aylesworth
Irving Bacon
Bobby Barber
Clara Blandick
Billy Bletcher
Ward Bond
Wade Boteler
Paul Bryar
Eddy Chandler
Spencer Charters
Heinie Conklin
Virginia Dabney
Eddie Dew
Jack Dime
James Donlan
Jim Farley
Bud Geary
Etienne Girardot
Huntley Gordon
Roger Gray
Kit Guard
Frank Hagney
Chuck Hamilton
Edward Hearn
Tom Herbert
Harry Holman
George Humbert
Brandon Hurst
Walter James
Kenner G. Kemp
Bruce King
Leonid Kinskey
Wright Kramer
Charles Lane
Rex Lease
Theodore Lorch
Montagu Love
Matt McHugh
Bruce Mitchell
Charles R. Moore
Frances Morris
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Eddie Parker
Jack Perry
Dewey Robinson
Constantine Romanoff
Christian Rub
Hector V. Sarno
Elaine Shepard
Buster Slaven
Harry Tenbrook
Ray Turner
Harry Tyler
Max Wagner
William Wagner
Nella Walker
John Ward
Guy Wilkerson
Guinn Williams
Harry Wilson
Robert Winkler
John Wray
Charlotte Wynters
Duke York
Also Directed by Elliott Nugent
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