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Bookmark this pageThe Great Man Votes (1939)
Director: Garson Kanin
Movie review
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).Author: TM
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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