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What a Man!
“WHOO-O-O is he a Wolf!”
7.0 / 10• 1944• 1h 7m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
Cast & Crew
Johnny Downs
Henry Burrows
Lead
Wanda McKay
Joan Rankin
Robert Kent
Steve Jackson
Etta McDaniel
Bluebell
Harry Holman
Harold D. Prewitt
Lillian Bronson
Constance
Wheeler Oakman
Detective
John Ince
Dr. Williams
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. William Beaudine's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. What a Man! is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
