Laughing at Life
{{Short description|1933 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Laughing at Life
| image = Laughing at Life FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = Ford Beebe
| producer = Nat Levine
| writer = Ford Beebe (story)
Prescott Chaplin (screenplay)
Thomas J. Dugan (screenplay)
| cinematography = Tom Galligan
Ernest Miller
| editing = Joseph Kane
Ray Snyder
| distributor = Mascot Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1933|07|12}}
| runtime = 71 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English}}
Laughing at Life is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Ford Beebe.
Plot summary
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe-hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, who is on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Cast
- Victor McLaglen as Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale
- Conchita Montenegro as Panchita
- William "Stage" Boyd as Inspector Mason
- Lois Wilson as Mrs. McHale
- Henry B. Walthall as President Valenzuela
- Regis Toomey as Pat Collins / Mc Hale
- Ruth Hall as Alice Lawton
- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Jones
- Dewey Robinson as Smith
- Ivan Lebedeff as Don Flavio Montenegro
- Mathilde Comont as Mamacita
- Noah Beery as Hauseman
- J. Farrell MacDonald as The Warden
- Tully Marshall as Stone
- Henry Armetta as Fruit Vendor
- Edmund Breese as Cabinet Officer
- Frankie Darro as Chango
- Otis Harlan as Businessman
- Buster Phelps as Young Pat 'Denny' McHale
- Arthur Hoyt as Businessman
- Pat O'Malley as Detective Agency Official
- William Desmond as Military Cabinet Officer
- Lloyd Whitlock as World War I Commanding Officer
- Philo McCullough as Capt. Valdez
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0024245|title=Laughing at Life}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=laughing_at_life|name=Laughing at Life}}
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Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Mascot Pictures films
Category:American adventure drama films
Category:Films about mercenaries
Category:Films produced by Nat Levine
Category:Films directed by Ford Beebe
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:1930s adventure drama films
Category:English-language adventure drama films
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