Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 68 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
- ambassador
- dictator
- widow
- spy
- siege
- musical
- lemonade
- cigar smoking
- slapstick comedy
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Margaret Dumont — Gloria Teasdale
- Raquel Torres — Vera Marcal
- Louis Calhern — Ambassador Trentino
- Edmund Breese — Zander
- Leonid Kinskey — Sylvanian Agitator
- Charles Middleton — Prosecutor
- Edgar Kennedy — Street Vendor
- Edward Arnold — Politician (uncredited)
- Wade Boteler — Officer at Battle Headquarters (uncredited)
- Sidney Bracey — Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
- E.H. Calvert — Officer in Battle Sequence (uncredited)
- Directed
- Leo McCarey
- Written
- Arthur Sheekman, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Nat Perrin
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 868 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
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