Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Cast
Harold Lloyd
Harold Diddlebock
Jimmy Conlin
Wormy
Raymond Walburn
E.J. Waggleberry
Rudy Vallee
Lynn Sargent
Edgar Kennedy
Jake the Bartender
Margaret Hamilton
Flora
Franklin Pangborn
Formfit Franklin
Jack Norton
James R. Smoke
Arline Judge
Manicurist
Frances Ramsden
Frances Otis
Lionel Stander
Max
Robert Dudley
Robert McDuffy
Arthur Hoyt
J.P. Blackstone
Julius Tannen
Nearsighted Banker
Al Bridge
Wild Bill Hickock
Robert Greig
Algernon McNiff
Georgia Caine
Bearded Lady
Torben Meyer
Barber with Mustache
Victor Potel
Prof. Potelle
J. Farrell MacDonald
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Frank Moran
Mike the Cop (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Police Captain (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
Bootblack (uncredited)
Dewey Robinson
Lucky Leopold (uncredited)
Crew
Preston Sturges
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Stuart Gilmore
Editor
Thomas Neff
Editor
Robert Pittack
Director of Photography
Barton Adams
Assistant Director
Howard Hughes
Producer
Elaine Ramsey
Hairstylist
Werner R. Heymann
Original Music Composer
Victor A. Gangelin
Set Decoration
Cliff P. Broughton
Production Manager
Robert Usher
Art Direction
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