Plumber in Love

1932 1h 13m FR

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9.0

MASTERPIECE

★9.0TMDB · 1

Comedy

Synopsis

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Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer’s effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt. (A French-language remake of the earlier film The Passionate Plumber.)

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Buster Keaton
Elmer E. Tuttle
Jimmy Durante
Tony
Jeannette Ferney
Polly Moran
Barbara Leonard
Irene Purcell
Maude Eburne
Jean Del Val

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Writers: Laurence E. Johnson, Jacques Deval, P.G. Wodehouse
Languages: French
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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94 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 6

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 6

CAST

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Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante and Jeannette Ferney carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0155020 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Claude Autant-Lara directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
294 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante and Jeannette Ferney carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0155020 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.