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The Pursuit of Happiness

(1934)

September 27, 1934• 1h 15m
58%
TMDB Score

Overview

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.

Alexander Hall

Director

Top Billed Cast

FL

Francis Lederer

Max Christmann

JB

Joan Bennett

Prudence Kirkland

CR

Charles Ruggles

Aaron Kirkland

MB

Mary Boland

Comfort Kirkland

BB

Barbara Barondess

Meg Mallory

MW

Minor Watson

Colonel Sherwood

IB

Irving Bacon

Bijah

WK

Walter Kingsford

Rev. Lyman Banks

AM

Adrian Morris

Thad Jennings

DY

Duke York

Jonathan