Hard to Handle (film)

Hard to Handle (1933) is a pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Cast

 * James Cagney as Myron C. 'Lefty' Merrill
 * Mary Brian as Ruth Waters
 * Allen Jenkins as Marathon radio announcer
 * Ruth Donnelly as Lil Waters
 * Claire Dodd as Marlene Reeves
 * Robert McWade as Charles G. Reeves
 * Berton Churchill as Col. H.D.X. Wells
 * Emma Dunn as 	Mrs. Hawks
 * Gavin Gordon as 	John Hayden
 * Sterling Holloway as Andy Heaney
 * William H. Strauss as 	Mr. Abe Goldstein
 * Bess Flowers as 	Merrill's Secretary