An order clerk poses as a millionaire.An order clerk poses as a millionaire.An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
Billy Bletcher
- Ipps
- (uncredited)
Betty Jane Graham
- Child
- (uncredited)
George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Western Union Clerk
- (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell
- J.W. Rollins
- (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
- Vincent Colgate
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAmong the songs cut from the version which presently survives in in the Warner Bros. library, and which is occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies, is What Would I Care, sung by Bernice Claire and Jack Whiting at the end of reel five, which is "missing in action".
- GoofsAt the beginning of the film when Elmer is fishing, the bobber on his line is white when seen in the water, but dark when he pulls the line out of the water.
- Alternate versionsThe original 80-minute version, a full musical, was released only outside of the United States. Most of the musical numbers were cut for the domestic version. It is unknown whether a print of this longer version still exists, although the complete soundtrack to the International Sound Version (which includes all of the original songs) survives on Vitaphone discs at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
- SoundtracksAs Long as I Have You
(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph A. Burke
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Performed by Bernice Claire and Jack Whiting and chorus
Featured review
Poseurs
Top Speed has both Joe E. Brown and Jack Whiting as a pair of order clerks at a
brokerage house who decide to see how the other half lives. They pose as young
society blades while Brown is supposed to deliver an order which he misplaces.
Whiting falls for millionaire heiress Bernice Claire and she him. But will it hold once she finds out who he is. As for Brown he's got entertainer Laura Lee very interested in him.
The climax is a motorboat race which is quite the comic event. Evinrude's motors really take a pounding from Brown. And from Frank McHugh in one of his early films where he plays a perpetually soused millionaire/inventor.
A good one for Joe E. Brown fans.
Whiting falls for millionaire heiress Bernice Claire and she him. But will it hold once she finds out who he is. As for Brown he's got entertainer Laura Lee very interested in him.
The climax is a motorboat race which is quite the comic event. Evinrude's motors really take a pounding from Brown. And from Frank McHugh in one of his early films where he plays a perpetually soused millionaire/inventor.
A good one for Joe E. Brown fans.
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- bkoganbing
- Mar 14, 2019
Details
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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