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The Great Man Votes (1939)

Director: Garson Kanin

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From Time Out Film Guide

Virtually a B movie, but featuring a wittily outsize performance from Barrymore as a Harvard professor, turned nightwatchman and souse since his wife's death, who demands the right to educate his own children and finds himself arguing from a position of strength because of a quaint electoral anomaly. In Capra vein but rather too whimsical, the film is constantly dragged down by a pedestrian script which offers Barrymore no help at all (and indeed, often makes him appear to be guilty of cute overplaying).

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Cast & crew

Director: Garson Kanin

Producer: Cliff Reid

Cast: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Donald MacBride, William Demarest, Katharine Alexander full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 72 mins


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