Let's Make a Million

Congress votes veterans of the Great War $1,100 each. Edward Everett Horton intends to use it to get married to longtime fiancee Charlotte Wynter. However, oil swindlers come to town and explain they only buy supplies from their shareholders. Horton, who anticipates selling pipes, motors and other equipment to them, puts in his bonus, and so does everyone else in town. Then comes the dawn, and they all blame Horton save Miss Wynter and J. M. Kerrigan. Still, any town that has Irving Bacon as a mail carrier can't be too bad.

Paramount rushed this into production hoping to tie it to actual events, but by the time it came out, it was old hat. Nonetheless, its a funny little comedy, thanks largely to Horton's mugging. Kerrigan shows himself to be very funny in a scene where he's taking the hair of the dog that bit him, and getting Horton drunk in the process.

Irish-born Kerrigan had first essayed the movies as an actor and director in 1916, but it didn't take. Sounds was a different matter, and 1929 saw him in the first of more than a hundred talkies through 1956. He died in 1964, aged 79.