Quick Millions (1939 film)

see also Quick Millions (1931 film)

Quick Millions
Directed by	Malcolm St. Clair
Produced by	John Stone
Written by	Buster Keaton (story) Joseph Hoffman (story)
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	August 25, 1939 (1939-08-25)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Quick Millions is a 1939 American comedy film, one of the series of seventeen Jones Family films beginning with Every Saturday Night (1936) and ending with On Their Own (1940). Spring Byington appeared in all seventeen; Jed Prouty in all but the last one.

In this entry the Joneses are convinced they've bought the Grand Canyon. This is one of the two Jones Family films with gags and a story line provided by Buster Keaton, briefly moonlighting from MGM for his old friend Malcolm St. Clair.^[1]

Cast

Jed Prouty as John Jones
Spring Byington as Mrs. John Jones
Kenneth Howell as Jack Jones
George Ernest as Roger Jones
June Carlson as Lucy Jones
Florence Roberts as Granny Jones
Billy Mahan as Bobby Jones
Eddie Collins as Henry 'Beaver' Howard
Robert Shaw as National Park Ranger Barry Frazier
Helen Ericson as Daisy Landers
Marvin Stephens as Tommy McGuire
Paul Hurst as Sheriff
John T. Murray as Professor Pete Mathews
George Lynn as H. Jenkins 'Hank' Pierson
Horace McMahon as Floyd 'Bat' Douglas
John Sheehan as Fire Chief
Eddie Dunn as Deputy Sheriff
George Guhl as Deputy and Jailer
Billy Griffith as Druggist
Edwin Gaffney as Gas Station Attendant
Edward McWade as Storekeeper
Arthur Rankin as Notary
Clarence Wilson as Assayer
Douglas Gerrard as Indian

References

↑ Keaton, the Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down, Tom Dardis, pgs. 246-248

External links

Quick Millions at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Malcolm St. Clair

1910s	Rip & Stitch: Tailors (1919) The Little Widow (1919) No Mother to Guide Him (1919)

1920s	Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920) He Loved Like He Lied (1920) His Youthful Fancy (1920) Don't Weaken! (1920) Welcome Home (1920) A Kitchen Cinderella (1920) Wedding Bells Out of Tune (1921) Sweetheart Days (1921) The Goat (1921) The Night Before (1921) Call a Cop (1921) Bright Eyes (1921) You'd Be Surprised (1922) Don't Be Foolish (1922) Wedding Dumb Bells (1922) The Blacksmith (1922) Their First Vacation (1922) Twin Husbands (1922) Entertaining the Boss (1922) Keep 'Em Home (1922) Christmas (1923) Fighting Blood (1923) The Knight in Gale (1923) The Knight That Failed (1923) Six Second Smith (1923) Two Stones with One Bird (1923) Some Punches and Judy (1923) Gall of the Wild (1923) Rice and Old Shoes (1923) The End of a Perfect Fray (1923) When Gale and Hurricane Meet (1923) Judy Punch (1923) George Washington, Jr. (1924) Julius Sees Her (1924) When Knighthood Was in Tower (1924) Money to Burns (1924) King Leary (1924) William Tells (1924) Sherlock's Home (1924) For the Love of Mike (1924) The Square Sex (1924) Bee's Knees (1924) Find Your Man (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924) On Thin Ice (1925) Are Parents People? (1925) After Business Hours (1925) The Trouble with Wives (1925) A Woman of the World (1925) The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926) A Social Celebrity (1926) Good and Naughty (1926) The Show Off (1926) The Popular Sin (1926) Knockout Reilly (1927) Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Sporting Goods (1928) Beau Broadway (1928) The Fleet's In (1928) The Canary Murder Case (1929) Side Street (1929) Welcome Danger (1929; uncredited) Night Parade (1929)

1930s	Montana Moon (1930) Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930) Remote Control (1930; uncredited) The Boudoir Diplomat (1930) Olsen's Big Moment (1933) Goldie Gets Along (1933) Crack-Up (1936) Time Out for Romance (1937) Born Reckless (1937) She Had to Eat (1937) Dangerously Yours (1937) A Trip to Paris (1938) Safety in Numbers (1938) Down on the Farm (1938) Everybody's Baby (1939) The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) Quick Millions (1939) Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

1940s	Young as You Feel (1940) Meet the Missus (1940) The Bashful Bachelor (1942) The Man in the Trunk (1942) Over My Dead Body (1942) Two Weeks to Live (1943) Jitterbugs (1943) The Dancing Masters (1943) Swing Out the Blues (1943) The Big Noise (1944) The Bullfighters (1945) Arthur Takes Over (1948) Fighting Back (1948)

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