"Ma, Pa, Mamie, Red and Bill - those funny characters come to life!" 15 January 1927 Comedy 71 mins
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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W.C. Fields as Pa Potter
Mary Alden as Ma Potter
Ivy Harris as Mamie
Jack Egan as Bill
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Red Miller
Joseph W. Smiley as Rankin
Bradley Barker as Eagle
Fred C. Newmeyer Director
Ray Harris Adaptation
J.P. McEvoy Novel
J. Clarkson Miller Writer
Sam Mintz Adaptation
United States 15 January 1927
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