Film

Mixed Nuts

1934 · 20m · Comedy

IMDb

6.1

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."

Douglas Wakefield

Prof. Wakefield

Billy Nelson

Prof. Fabian Nelson

Jack Barty

Mr. Twitchell

Don Barclay

Prof. Barclay

Thelma Hill

Chorine

Nora Cecil

Mrs. Twitchett

Dorothy Granger

Chorine who packs a punch

• James ParrottDirector
• Hal RoachProducer

Release date

February 16, 1934

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Genres

Comedy