The Magnificent Dope
Meet the All-American Jerk...Ladies' Man De Luxe!
1942-07-01 | 83 minutes
Plot Summary
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Cast
-
Henry FondaThadeus Winship 'Tad' Page
-
Lynn BariClaire Harris
-
Don AmecheDwight Dawson
-
Edward Everett HortonHorace Hunter
-
George BarbierJames Roger Barker
-
Frank OrthMessenger
-
Marietta CantyJenny
-
Hobart CavanaughAlbert Gowdy
-
Hal K. DawsonCharlie
-
Josephine WhittellMrs. Hunter
-
Arthur LoftMr. Morton, Fire Engine Salesman
-
Paul StantonPeters
-
Claire Du BreyPeter's Secretary
-
William B. DavidsonMr. Reindel
-
Harry HaydenMitchell
-
Pierre WatkinCarson
-
Bess FlowersBirthday Party Guest (uncredited)
-
Byron FoulgerFifth Man to Leave Class (uncredited)
-
Charles TrowbridgeExamining Doctor (uncredited)
Recommendations
-
Fight!! Spirit of the Sword
-
Taxi 3
-
Good
-
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
-
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-
Project A
-
Next Exit, Main Street
-
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
-
Decalogue IV
-
Go
-
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill
-
Fight!
-
Le Parti du cinéma
-
Captain Nulle
-
Far Far Away Idol
-
Fantomas Unleashed
-
Matchstick Men
-
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal
-
A Close Shave
-
Port of Call
Similar Movies
-
The Yodel Contest
-
The Muppets Take Manhattan
-
The Hudsucker Proxy
-
Kate & Leopold
-
Meet Dave
-
Something Wild
-
Hair
-
It Could Happen to You
-
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
-
The Squid and the Whale
-
Down with Love
-
Quick Change
-
Naked in New York
-
Alfie
-
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
-
The Wedding Banquet
-
10,000 Saints
-
Cocktail
-
Love, Lies and Seeta
-
Crocodile Dundee II