The Gay Nighties

The Gay Nighties
	Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, in The Gay Nighties (1933)
Directed by	Mark Sandrich
Written by	Bobby Clark (adaptation & dialogue); John Grey (story); Ben Holmes (story); Mark Sandrich (adaptation & dialogue)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by	Daniel Mandell
Distributed by	RKO
Release date	1933
Country	United States
Language	English

The Gay Nighties is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film featuring Clark & McCullough and directed by Mark Sandrich.

Plot summary

Clark & McCullough, as Hives and Blodgett, are campaign managers for political candidate Oliver Beezley. They plan to defeat Beezley's political rival, Commodore Amos Pipp (James Finlayson), by exploiting his weakness for women. Blodgett is to be disguised as a beautiful woman to entrap Pipp, but with his moustache he proves unconvincing in drag—Hives declares, "Even the Commodore wouldn't fall for a buzzard like you!"—and Hives instead enlists the help of Mrs. Beezley (Dorothy Granger) to carry out the scheme.

First, though, they have to stay out of the line of fire, and ahead of the police, the nearsighted house detective (Monte Collins), a sleepy man with a cot (Charles Williams), and a somnambulist Countess (Sandra Shaw) with her afghan hound.

Dorothy Granger, with Clark & McCullough, in The Gay Nighties (1933)

Cast

Bobby Clark as B. Oglethorpe Hives
Paul McCullough as Blodgett
James Finlayson as Mr. Pipp
Dorothy Granger as Mrs. Beezley
John Sheehan as Mr. Beezley
Monte Collins as Hotel Detective
Sandra Shaw as Countess
Charles Williams as Sleepy Man

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External links

The Gay Nighties on IMDb
The Gay Nighties is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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