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The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Directed by Walter Lang
Overview
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?
Rated NR | Length 83 minutes
Actors
Edward Everett Horton | Marietta Canty | Henry Fonda | Don Ameche | Pierre Watkin | Frank Orth | George Barbier | Hal K. Dawson | Arthur Loft | Claire Du Brey | Hobart Cavanaugh | William B. Davidson | Charles Trowbridge | Byron Foulger | Josephine Whittell | Harry Hayden | Lynn Bari | Paul Stanton | Bess Flowers | Roseanne Murray