What Price Pants

1931 | 18 minutes | 5.0 ★ (3)

What Price Pants
  • Overview

    The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Smith, informing him that he's about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Dale intercepts the letter, and offers Smith a partnership in the pants factory...

  • Release Date

    21 August 1931

  • DirectingCasey Robinson
  • Budget

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  • Revenue

    $0.00

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