You're Telling Me! (1934)

Director
Erle C. Kenton

Main cast
W.C. Fields; Joan Marsh; Buster Crabbe; Adrienne Ames; Louise Carter

Genres
Comedy

Description
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living..


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