Elmer the Great

Elmer the Great

1933 | 1h 12m | Sports, Comedy | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

Naive Chicago Cubs rookie Elmer Kane falls into gambling trouble when jilted by his sweetheart. Pressured to throw the World Series, he lands in jail and must choose between spite and saving his team.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Mervyn LeRoy

CAST

Joe E. Brown

Patricia Ellis

Frank McHugh

Claire Dodd

Preston Foster

Russell Hopton

Sterling Holloway

Emma Dunn

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

Thomas J. Geraghty

Ring Lardner

George M. Cohan

Host Intros

01:24
Dave Karger Intro -- Elmer The Great (1933)
Intro Aired: Oct 2018
TCM's Dave Karger introduces Elmer The Great, 1933.

Related Videos

02:28
Elmer The Great (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Always Afraid Of Breaking Windows
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Now at the Chicago Cubs training camp (implausible in that its clearly among Souther California hills, where no baseball teams ever trained), Joe E. Brown, a former semi-pro ballplayer, as the Indiana rube title character, knocking around top pitchers, masked Frank McHugh as catcher High-Hips, in Elmer The Great, 1933.
02:51
Elmer The Great (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Did Chicago Really Buy You?
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Established in his first scene as an avid sleeper, Indiana baseball prodigy Joe E. Brown (title character) awakened by his brother (Sterling Holloway), for some reason discouraging his shopkeeper boss Nellie (Patricia Ellis) letting the rep from the Chicago Cubs (Charles Wilson) show him a contract, in Elmer The Great, 1933.
02:38
Elmer The Great (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Tell Nobody!
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Donna Mae Roberts on the switchboard, Charles Wilson the big-shot calling from Chicago, Patricia Ellis as Nellie at the store, various other characters in the Indiana home town, in a script based on a Broadway play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, opening the First National Joe E. Brown vehicle, Elmer The Great, 1933.
Elmer The Great - (Original Trailer)
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A country hick (Joe E. Brown) bats his way to baseball stardom in the comedy Elmer The Great (1933).

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