On Again—Off Again
Those Goofy Guys on the Roar Path!
1937 · 1h 8m · Passed
Comedy
Directed by
Edward F. Cline
Overview
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Director and cast
- Edward F. Cline Director
- Bert Wheeler as William Hobbs
- Robert Woolsey as Claude Horton
- Marjorie Lord as Florence Cole
- Esther Muir as Nettie Horton
- Patricia Wilder as Gertie Green
- Paul Harvey as Mr. Applegate
- Russell Hicks as George Dilwig
- Maxine Jennings as Miss Meeker
- Kitty McHugh as Miss Parker
- George Meeker as Tony
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