Sudden Money (1939)
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Directors
Nick Grinde
Cast
Charles Ruggles
The story
When the Patterson family wins $150,000 in a sweepstakes, family patriarch and frustrated drummer Sweeney decides to reassemble his old college ragtime band. Sweeney's wife Elsie enrolls in an art school, eager to become a painter. Her brother Doc begins gambling on horse races.
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