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Wide Open is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Archie Mayo released in USA on 1 february 1930 with Edward Everett Horton

Wide Open (1930)

Wide Open
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Released in USA 1 february 1930
Length 1h9
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy
Rating60% 3.000593.000593.000593.000593.00059

Wide Open (1930) is a pre-Code romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros., and based on the novel The Narrow Street by Edward Bateman Morris. Edward Everett Horton has a rare leading role, opposite Patsy Ruth Miller.

Synopsis

Unassertive bookkeeper Simon Haldane (Horton) is the butt of everyone's jokes at work. Co-worker Agatha (Louise Fazenda) is desperately in love with him. One rainy night, Agatha's mother, with Agatha in tow, visits him at home to insist that he marry her. Outside, two detectives chase a mysterious young woman (Miller), who eludes them by slipping unnoticed into Simon's house and hiding in a closet. When the detectives enter the premises, Simon manages to get rid of them and Agatha and her mother.

Actors

Edward Everett Horton

(Simon Haldane)Louise Fazenda

(Agatha Hathaway)Patsy Ruth Miller

(Julia Faulkner)Vera Lewis

(Mrs. Hathaway)Louise Beavers

(Easter)
And :
Edna Murphy
Frank Beal
Edward J. Ratcliffe
T. Roy Barnes
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