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What! No Beer?

1933 · 66 min

A breezy, silly romp full of slapstick chaos and rapid-fire banter, easy to enjoy without much thought.

Overview
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • friendship
  • class
  • power
  • rebellion
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour8
Realism4
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Edward Sedgwick
Written by
Jack Cluett, Carey Wilson
Starring
Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Barry, John Miljan, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, Charles Dunbar
Cinematography
Harold Wenstrom
Runtime
66 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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