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Elmer, the Great: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd. Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball.
- (602)
- Comedy, Family, Romance
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1933-04-29
Plot. Elmer Kane ( Joe E. Brown) is a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because he is not only vain but naive, Elmer's teammates take great delight in pulling practical jokes on him. Still, he is so valuable a player that the Cubs management hides the letters from his hometown sweetheart Nellie ...
Elmer The Great (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Always Afraid Of Breaking Windows Now at the Chicago Cubs training camp (implausible in that it’s 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.
- Mervyn Leroy, Al Alborn
- Joe E. Brown
Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer
Released April 29th, 1933, 'Elmer the Great' stars Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 12 min, and received a user score of 43 (out of ...
Sep 11, 2023 · Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way...
- 72 min
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- Hollywood Classic Movies
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Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series. Mervyn LeRoy. Director. Thomas J. Geraghty. Screenplay. Ring Lardner. Writer. George M. Cohan. Writer.
