It's in the Air (1935)

Directors

Charles Reisner

Cast

Al Shean, Charles Trowbridge, Clarence Wilson, Claude King, Dean Riesner, Dennis O'Keefe, Don Brodie, Edmund Mortimer, Ernie Adams, George Chandler, Gertrude Astor, Grant Mitchell, Harold Entwistle, Harold Miller, Harvey Stephens, Howard Hickman, Jack Benny, Jean Acker, Jim Thorpe, Lee Phelps, Margaret Seddon, Mary Carlisle, Nat Pendleton, Olaf Hytten, Phillips Smalley, Purnell Pratt, Richard Powell, Robert Gordon, Sheldon Jett, Stanley Andrews, Ted Healy, Tyler Brooke, Una Merkel, William Tannen

The story

Con men Calvin Churchill (Jack Benny) and "Clip" McGurk (Ted Healy), in the business of fixing races, boxing matches and other sporting events, are forced to go on the run when Henry Potke (Nat Pendleton), special investigator from the Revenue Department, is after them for tax evasion. Potke tracks the con men to a hotel room, where they trick him by claiming they are suffering from a highly infectious influenza. Potke flees in terror.

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