She Couldn't Take It
Cast & Crew
Tay Garnett
George Raft
Joan Bennett
Walter Connolly
Billie Burke
Lloyd Nolan
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Synopsis
Wealthy New York banker Daniel Van Dyke summons his wild family to announce that he is ill and plans to plead guilty to charges of income tax evasion in order to go to prison and get a rest from their antics. His cellmate is the notorious bootlegger Spot Ricardi, who regards himself as a businessman not unlike Van Dyke. The two become close friends, and Ricardi urges Van Dyke to take a stern hand in disciplining his family. As Van Dyke dies, he appoints Ricardi trustee of his estate, muttering "sucker" with his last breath. Upon his release, Ricardi changes his name to Joe Ricard and refuses to rejoin Tex and his former buddies of the underworld. To satisfy the family's curiosity about Ricardi, Van Dyke's daughter Carol poses as a reporter and visits him in Central Park, but he realizes her identity and dunks her in the lake. Ricardi then informs the family that he is taking charge, and orders Carol to end her engagement to Alan Bartlett, a pompous actor. Carol ignores his orders and sponsors a Coney Island party for her fiancé, at which she shows off Ricardi's former gangland car that she has bought. The angry Ricardi drives Carol and the car into the country, then sends the automobile over an embankment, which causes some suspicious farmers to take them prisoner. Ricardi falls in love with Carol, and although the feeling is not returned, he frightens Alan out of marrying her. In reply, Carol contacts Tex and suggests that Ricardi's former gang kidnap her to extort a ransom payment from Ricardi. When the police follow Ricardi with the ransom, Tex believes that he has been betrayed. Tex then shoots fellow gangster Fingers Boston after Boston tells Carol that Tex plans to kill her. Ricardi finds Finger's body with a note attached to it indicating the location of the mansion where Carol is being held. The police arrest Ricardi, but he escapes and leads them to the mansion, where the gang is captured. Tex is about to kill Ricardi, but Ricardi shoots him, then finds Carol in the cellar beating another gangster senseless. Safe from danger, Ricardi and Carol embrace, and finally admit their true feelings for each other.
Director
Tay Garnett
Cast
George Raft
Joan Bennett
Walter Connolly
Billie Burke
Lloyd Nolan
Wallace Ford
James Blakely
Alan Mowbray
William Tannen
Donald Meek
Frank Rice
Frank Conroy
Tom Kennedy
Ivan Lebedeff
Franklin Pangborn
Thomas Jackson
Huey White
Mack Gray
Peppino Dallalio
Robert Middlemas
Walter Walker
Stanley Andrews
Wyrley Birch
Maynard Holmes
Maxine Lewis
Irving Bacon
James Burtis
Hal Craig
Ky Robinson
Ted Oliver
Eddie Gribbon
Loren Riebe
Olaf Hytten
Joe North
George Mckay
Ed Deering
Jack Daley
Gene Morgan
Frank Austin
George Lloyd
Emmett Vogan
Billy West
Charles Sherlock
Joe Clive
Jimmy Harrison
Stanley Mack
Tom Costello
Antrim Short
Jack Gardner
John Quillan
Victor Potel
James B. "pop" Kenton
Jack Duffy
George Webb
Frank La Rue
Frank Marlowe
Robert Wilber
Walter Perry
Stark Bishop
Al Ferguson
John Ince
Donald Kerr
Harrison Greene
Lee Phelps
Lon Poff
Heinie Conklin
Phillip Ronaldo
Henry Sylvester
George Webb
J. Merrill Holmes
Frank G. Fanning
Mike Lally
William E. "babe" Lawrence
Paul Jones
Arnold Gray
J. Thornton "jack" Baston
Raymond Turner
Oscar Rudolph
C. A. Bachman
Kernan Cripps
Arthur Rankin
Lois Lindsay
Henry Rocquemore
Nadine Dore
John Webb Dillion
Arthur Stuart Hull
Paul Power
Grace Goodall
Gladys Gale
Edith Kingdon
Carrie Daumery
Lee Shumway
Bess Flowers
Crew
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Working titles for this film were Rich Man's Daughter and Rich Girl's Folly. The film marked producer B. P. Schulberg's first production for Columbia. Schulberg was previously at Paramount.
