It's a Gift

(1934)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 109 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1934

Runtime: 68 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Cast: W.C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp, Tammany Young, Морган Уоллес, Чарльз Селлон, Josephine Whittell

Plot

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong. Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends happily.