Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
Watch the official Running Wild 1927 trailer in HD below.
W.C. Fields as Elmer Finch
Marie Shotwell as Mrs. Elmer Finch
Mary Brian as Elizabeth Finch
Claude Buchanan as Dave Harvey
Frederick Burton as D.W. Harvey
Barnett Raskin as Junior
Edward Roseman as Arvo - the Hypnotist
J. Moy Bennett as Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
John Merton as Police Officer (uncredited)
Frank Evans as Amos Barker
Gregory La Cava Director
Gregory La Cava Story
Paul Vogel Director of Photography
Ralph E. Black Editor
Gregory La Cava Producer
Carl Laemmle Jr. Producer
William LeBaron Associate Producer
United States 10 June 1927
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05 September 1927
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03 March 1927
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23 October 1927
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him.
15 January 1927
Lane plays two roles: Grand Duke Algy Horseradish De Ketchup of Worcestershire and Newsboy White. The newsboy is hired by Elmer Éclair (played by Lane's younger brother, Walter Lupino) to impersonate the Duke for unstated reasons, and to attend a house party at the Smalls (a last name that leads to several puns) in the Duke's stead.
19 February 1927
Cartoon animals frolic in a winter wonderland. Meanwhile, their keeper tries to make things safe and orderly.
05 January 1927
Two married couples, Doris (Helen Chadwick) and John Manning (Gayne Whitman) and Clara (Dorothy Revier) and Herbert Bradley (Ray Ripley), each separate as a result of domestic arguments.
20 February 1927
Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart.
20 February 1927
A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.
19 March 1927
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
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