Ted Wilde directed Clancy in Wall Street, a 1930 American pre-Code feature, the first comedy about the stock market crash.
The film stars Charles Murray, who had made a number of films for Edward Small.
It would become the last film of director Ted Wilde, who had died in December 1929.
Plumber Michael Clancy, fixing up some pipe on the stock exchange, accidentally buys some stock and makes a quick $200 on 20 percent margin. He wants to continue but his partner, Andy MacIntosh, refuses to get involved.
Clancy makes a fortune, leaves his business, and crashes high society, ignoring his old friend, and urging his daughter, Katie, to reject MacIntosh’s son in favor of Freddie Saunders. But all changes when the stock market crashes.
Cast
Charles Murray as Michael Clancy
Aggie Herring as Mrs. Clancy
Lucien Littlefield as Andy MacIntosh
Edward Nugent as Donald MacIntosh
Miriam Seegar as Katie Clancy
Reed Howes as Freddie Saunders
Credits:
Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes and 18 seconds.1:13:18
Directed by Ted Wilde
Based on Story by Jack Wagner, Ralph Bell
Produced by Edward Small
Cinematography Harry Jackson
Edited by Phil Cahn
Production: Edward Small Productions
Distributed by Aristocrat
Release date: March 15, 1930
Running time: 76 minutes
