Tillie and Gus (1933)

Directors

Francis Martin

Cast

Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Barton MacLane, Clarence Wilson, Edgar Kennedy, George Barbier, Julie Bishop, W. C. Fields

The story

Tillie Winterbottom has just lost her waterfront saloon in Shanghai, China in a dice game, and her ex-husband Gus is on trial for murder in Lone Gulch, Alaska, when they each receive word that Tillie's brother has died. Gus escapes and the two reunite in Seattle, then head for Danville to investigate the dead man's estate and the possibility of an inheritance. Local Danville attorney Phineas Pratt claims the man died in debt, but he actually has swindled his daughter Mary Sheridan out of her rightful inheritance, including the family home, forcing her to move with her husband Tom Sheridan and their infant son, King to a dilapidated ferry…

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