World Premiere
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Ted Tetzlaff
Otis Garrett
Casts & Crew
John Barrymore
Frances Farmer
Eugene Pallette
Virginia Dale
Ricardo Cortez
Sig Ruman
Don Castle
William Wright
Fritz Feld
Luis Alberni
Cliff Nazarro
Andrew Tombes
Also Directed by Ted Tetzlaff
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Also Directed by Otis Garrett
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