On Again-Off Again

On Again-Off Again
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Directed byEdward Cline
Written byNat Perrin (screenplay)
Benny Rubin (screenplay)
Produced byLee S. Marcus
Samuel J. Briskin (executive producer)
StarringBert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Marjorie Lord
Patricia Wilder
Esther Muir
CinematographyJack MacKenzie
Edited byJohn Lockert
Music byDave Dreyer
Roy Webb
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • July 9, 1937 (1937-07-09)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

On Again-Off Again is a 1937 American musical comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures and starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey.[1]

Plot

William Hobbs and Claude Horton own a drug-manufacturing company and continuously bicker with each another. Their lawyer George Dilwig suggests a wrestling match between the two men, with the winner gaining full ownership of the company and the loser serving as the winner's butler for one year.

Cast

Production

The film is based on the 1914 play A Pair of Sixes by Edward Peple.

Robert Woolsey was suffering from kidney disease throughout production of the film and experienced constant pain.

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Thomas M. Pryor wrote: "The new opus is no better and, perhaps, no worse than most of their previous excursions in the realm of low comedy. The boys are to be commended for their continued unabashed delivery of old gags."[2]

References

  1. ^ "On Again--Off Again". afi.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  2. ^ Pryor, Thomas M. (1937-09-18). "The Screen". The New York Times. p. 15.


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