Sit Tight (Warner Bros.) (1931)

WARNER BROS. RUNNING TIME (Vitaphone) 78 Minutes FOOTAGE 6997 Feet 321 WEST 44th STREET TWAMILIKIIN VITAPHON REG. TRADE MARK ral seme IF je). A | Km eee | = PHECTWIRIES Permission licensed exhibitors is granted to reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter contained herein. NEW YORK CITY, U.S. A. SIT TIGHT WHO’S WHO IN “SIT TIGHT” WINNIE LIGHTNER—Red-headed tomboy of the talkies—sensationally successful in “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” “She Couldn’t Say No,” “Hold Everything” and “Life of the Party.” JOE E. BROWN—Funniest man in the world — laughing cyclone in “Song of the West,” “Sally,” “Go “ing Wild’ “Hold Everything,” “Maybe It’s Love,” outdoes himself as a laugh-maker in “Sit Tight.” CLAUDIA DELL — Favorite on New York and London stage and on the screen in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” “Big Boy” and “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” all Warner Bros. productions. PAUL GREGORY Young Adonis brought to Hollywood by Florenz Ziegfeld who bought the contract from Arthur Hammerstein. Sang leading roles in “Golden Dawn,” “Rose Marie,” “The Song of the Flame” and “Whoopee.” LOTTI LODER—Viennese beauty seen in Warner Bros. “A Soldier’s Plaything,” “Oh, Sailor, Behave” and “Sit Tight.” HOBART BOSWORTH — Sterling actor of stage and screen — seen in “Show of Shows,” “Mammy,” “Hinrricane” and “General Crack.” V worth was born in Marietta, C FRANK HAGNEY — Famous in roughneck roles—seen in “Rawhide Kid,” “The Fight Pest,” “Broken Barriers,’ “Midnight Madness,” “Masked Emotions” and “Oh, Yeah.” LLOYD BACON, DIRECTOR — One of ten best directors according to poll of the Film Daily for 1928-29 ~ —has directed numberless pictures among them Al Jolson’s “The Singing Fool” and John Barrymore’s “Moby Dick.” REX TAYLOR—Brilliant young writer brought from London — by Warner Bros. to write original stories and do adaptations. “Sit ‘ Tight” is an original Rex Taylor story. PRINTED IN U.S. A. Winnie Lightner in “Sit Tight.” Cut No. 3 Cut 15¢ Mat sc Those who have laughed themselves into a state bordering on apoplexy at the uproariously impossible antics of Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown in such plays as “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” “Hold Everything” and “Going Wild,” can have a slight conception of what would happen to patients unlucky enough to elect themselves inmates of the “health” institute which the two run in cahoots, as Dr. Winnie O’Neil and Jo Jo, in “Sit Tight.” : There is an exciting love story, too, in “Sit Tight,” which runs its rough course, not because of, but in spite of the pseudo-physicians-in-charge. Claudia Dell is the pretty little rich girl, Sally, who through her father secures a better job for Tom Weston, played by handsome Paul Gregory. Weston refuses to take an unearned job, and after quarreling with Sally, leaves her father’s office, which is in the same building as the “institute.” On the way out, he meets the ingratiating Jo Jo and hard-swatting Dr. Winnie who induce him to train for the championship as a wrestler. Sally, infuriated, hires a tough to whip Weston, thereby hoping to force him to give up. Jo Jo falls a victim ROUTINE STORY: (This story contains all the important facts about “Sit Tight.” Release it several days before the coming of the picture.) to the fighter, with results not promising to the former. Sally’s father tries to bribe Weston to give up the game, though Dr. Winnie has staked all her money on his winning the big fight. Failing, he has Weston kidnapped—and with him and Sally sets sail for Florida in the family yacht. This is the beginning of a series of hilarious and really thrilling complications which whirl by in lightning speed and bring the comedy to a climax which is a classic in slap-stick buffoonery. Others in the cast are Hobart Bosworth, Frank Hagney, Lotti Loder, Snitz Edwards and there are hundreds of additional players. Rex Taylor wrote the story and William K. Wells did the peppy, wise-cracking dialogue. Lloyd Bacon has done a magnificent piece of direction. “Sit Tight” is a picture for whatever ails you—for whatever ails anybody and everybody. Take the whole family and treat them to the laugh of a lifetime. Manager of the Theatre is pleased to announce that “Sit Tight” will open its local engagement next. Ce Par a fed eat et eek ee a Joe. E. Brown in “Sit Tight.” Cut No.2 Cut rs¢c Mat 5¢ SYNOPSIS (Not for Publication) Copyright 1930 By First National Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dr. Winnie O’Neil owns a health institute which she manages in person with the clumsy aid of Jojo, correspondence school wrestler. In the same building are the offices of Walter Dunlap, where Tom Weston is employed through the influence of his sweetheart, Sally Dunlap. Sally. secures a better job for Tom so that he may have more leisure time to devote to her, but he refuses to accept an unearned advancement and quits, after quarreling with Sally. On the way out he rescues Jojo who is beaten up by an ex-husband of Winnie’s who was once the world’s champion wrestler. Winnie arrives in time to see Tom man-handle the ex-champion wrestler and persuades the jobless young man to go into training as a wrestler, promising to make him a champion. Sally attempts to prevent this, but Tom sticks to his promise and goes into training at Winnie’s Health farm. Sally hires a professional tough to wrestle Tom at his training quarters to prove to him that he is no good at the game, but the plan fails when Jojo falls a victim to the plot and Tom rescues him. Dunlap, realizing that Sally really loves Tom, tries to bribe him to give up the wrestling game and return to her but Tom knows that Winnie has staked all her money on him as the next champion and will not desert Olaf, a hard guj=-——-:..:--— Charley, a tough customer___ DR. WINNIE O’NEIL, owner of fake health institute, See WINNIE LIGHTNER her at this late date. Dunlap then has Tom kidnapped on the night of the championship match and put on his private yacht which heads-*-~ Florida with Sally and her f and Tom a prisoner. But Sally finds Tom_-»4 rele: him and he demands that he be returned. Sally makes him choose between her and the match but Tom knows he must complete the match for Winnie’s sake, and demands that they return him to land, which they finally do. When Tom is missing from his dressing room Winnie sends Jojo, the correspondence school wrestler, into a substitute match with an unknown challenger to stall for time. The challenger again proves to be . Winnie’s ex-husband who once beat Jojo to a pulp, but Jojo does the best he can and after a side-splitting display of wrestling, succeeds in winning. Tom arrives just in time to enter the ring. Meanwhile Sally has become interested in the outcome of the championship in spite of herself and instead of going home after Tom has left her, she follows to the stadium and arrives in time to see Tom win the match and to become so interested that she forgives him on the spot. Tom and Sally and Winnie and Jojo then proceed to Florida on the yacht and live happily ever after. THE CAST JOJO, amorous and braggart aide__.---------JOE E. BROWN Sally Dunlap, rich girl who loves Weston___._Claudia Dell Tom Weston, an amateur wrestler_______--_---Paul Gregory French Girl, frivolous and frothy... 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