Film

The Passionate Plumber

Release year

1932

Synopsis

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

Directed by

Edward Sedgwick

Cast

Buster Keaton
Jimmy Durante
Polly Moran
Irene Purcell
Gilbert Roland
Mona Maris

Poster artist

Carl Gustav Berglöw