When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. Mason has other plans for that vacancy, and for Bert.
Acting
Sylvia Sidney's silent-film eyes in a talkie world.
Production
Depression-era dinner table as psychological battlefield.
Director
Arthur Hurley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Hollywood's awkward 1929-1930 transition: actors trained for silents suddenly had to talk, and it shows.
Berton Churchill, your nightmare boss here, later played the blowhard banker in Stagecoach—typecasting as America's most punchable authority figure.
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