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Shoot the Works is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Wesley Ruggles released in USA on 18 july 1934 with Jack Oakie
Shoot the Works (1934)
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Add to a movie listShoot the Works is a 1934 Pre-Code American comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon, Gene Fowler, Howard J. Green and Ben Hecht. The film stars Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Arline Judge and William Frawley. The film was released on June 29, 1934, by Paramount Pictures, preceding by three days the most rigorously enforced version of the Hollywood Production Code, which came into effect on July 1, 1934.
Actors
Jack Oakie
(Nicky Nelson)
Ben Bernie
(Joe Davis)
Dorothy Dell
(Lily Raquel)
Alison Skipworth
(The Countess)
Roscoe Karns
(Sailor Burke)
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