The Lemon Drop Kid
- Original title
- The Lemon Drop Kid
- Year
- 1934
- Running time
- 71 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Lee Tracy
- Helen Mack
- William Frawley
- Minna Gombell
- Baby LeRoy
- Kitty Kelly
- Henry B. Walthall
- Robert McWade
- Clarence Wilson
- Charles C. Wilson
- Ann Sheridan
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- Con artist and racetrack tout Wally Brooks hands a lemon drop to a man in a wheelchair, saying it will cure whatever ails him, then persuades the man, a millionaire named Griggsby, to bet $100 on a horse. Wally knows this horse can't win and intends to pocket the cash. The horse does win, so Wally and his partner Dunhill, alias "The Professor," take it on the lam.
Laying low in an out-of-the-way place, Wally meets town drunk Jonas Deering and his beautiful daughter Alice. A love affair blossoms and they marry, but when Alice is about to give birth and having serious medical problems, Wally needs money so he robs Mr. Potter, her boss. Alice dies in childbirth.
A despondent Wally shuns his own son, Wally Jr., and isn't sure where to turn next. The Professor marries longtime girlfriend Maizie and offers to raise Wally Jr., and even better, Griggsby shows up, claiming the lemon drop did help his arthritis. He volunteers to become Wally Jr.'s legal guardian and gives Wally some money, minus what the bet on his horse would have won.
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