What - No Beer?
What - No Beer? is a 1933 Pre-Code comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. MGM had also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and Speak Easily.
Plot
It's an election year, with the possible end of Prohibition in sight. Taxidermist Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton) goes to a "dry" rally, where he follows the beautiful Hortense (Phyllis Barry) and her bootlegger boyfriend Butch Lorado (John Miljan) into the meeting hall. The next day, barber Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante), driving a car covered in pro-booze stickers, convinces Elmer to vote wet. They go to the polls, causing confusion and wrecking the voting booths.
More details
| author | Carey Wilson Robert Hopkins |
|---|---|
| director | Edward Sedgwick |
| editor | Frank Sullivan |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | beer garden driving a car factory meet police raid prohibition stuffed animal vote |
| producer | Lawrence Weingarten |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |