The Good Old Soak

Wallace Beery slips easily into the role of a man who has never worked a day in his life, who drinks a lot of bootleg booze, is a constant trial to wife Janet Beecher, and has to solve all the problems when son Eric linden steals his mother's shares of stock, sells them to his uncle Robert McWade, and embezzles his firm's money on top of that.

Don Marquis may be best remembered for Archy & Mehitabel, but he also wrote novels and shows, and this amiable bit of corn among them; it had been filmed already in the silent days, and pretty much fit into the sort of programmer that Beery cranked out for MGM on this period. With Una Merkel, Betty Furness, Ted Healy, and Margaret Hamilton.