The Gay Nighties

The Gay Nighties
Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, in The Gay Nighties (1933)
Directed by	Mark Sandrich
Written by	Bobby Clark (adaptation & dialogue) John Grey (story) Ben Holmes (story) Mark Sandrich (adaptation & dialogue)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by	Daniel Mandell
Distributed by	RKO
Release date	1933
Country	United States
Language	English

The Gay Nighties is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film featuring Clark & McCullough and directed by Mark Sandrich.

Plot summary

Clark & McCullough, as Hives and Blodgett, are campaign managers for political candidate Oliver Beezley. They plan to defeat Beezley's political rival, Commodore Amos Pipp (James Finlayson), by exploiting his weakness for women. Blodgett is to be disguised as a beautiful woman to entrap Pipp, but with his moustache he proves unconvincing in drag—Hives declares, "Even the Commodore wouldn't fall for a buzzard like you!"—and Hives instead enlists the help of Mrs. Beezley (Dorothy Granger) to carry out the scheme.

First, though, they have to stay out of the line of fire, and ahead of the police, the nearsighted house detective (Monte Collins), a sleepy man with a cot (Charles Williams), and a somnambulist Countess (Sandra Shaw) with her afghan hound.

Dorothy Granger, with Clark & McCullough, in The Gay Nighties (1933)

Cast

• Bobby Clark as B. Oglethorpe Hives
• Paul McCullough as Blodgett
• James Finlayson as Mr. Pipp
• Dorothy Granger as Mrs. Beezley
• John Sheehan as Mr. Beezley
• Monte Collins as Hotel Detective
• Sandra Shaw as Countess
• Charles Williams as Sleepy Man

External links

• The Gay Nighties at IMDb
• The Gay Nighties is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive