Mr. Washington Goes to Town

  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
5/9/1942
64
NR

YOU'LL BUST YOUR SIDES A-LAFFIN'

While serving time in county prison, Wallingford sees a story in the newspaper that his cellmate, Schenectady, has inherited a mansionfrom his recently deceased uncle. Hearing this, Schenectady dreams of luxury.

Directors:
Jed Buell
William Beaudine
Writers:
Walter Weems
Lex Neal
Budget:
$15,000
    • hotel
    • dreams
    • gorilla
    • crooked lawyer
    • disembodied head
    • inheritance
    • all black cast
    • loan shark
    • beautician
    • jailed
    • jealous wife
    • chase scene
    • vanishing man
    • headless man
    • jewish accented black man
    • strange people

    Cast

    • Mantan Moreland
      Schenectady Washington
    • F.E. Miller
      Wallingford Montgomery
    • Marguerite Whitten
      Lady Queenie
    • Maceo Bruce Sheffield
      Brutus Blake
    • Arthur Ray
      J. Bennington Blackstone, crooked lawyer
    • Zerita Stepteau
      [as Zerita Steptoe] Mrs. Blake
    • Monte Hawley
      Jose Don Juan Romero Jefferson Stiletto
    • Cleo Desmond
      Old Crone Hotel Resident
    • Clarence Moorehouse
      The Gorilla
    • Vernon McCalla
      Invisible Man
    • John Lester Johnson
      Bodyless Head
    • Florence O'Brien
      Chambermaid
    • Charles Hawkins
      Lawyer Goldberg
    • Johnny Taylor
      Johnny the Great
    • DeForest Covan
      Headless Man
    • Clarence Hargrave
      Gorilla Trainer

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