An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Samuel S. Hinds
- Mr. Beaumont
- (as Samuel Hinds)
Stanley Blystone
- Policeman at Skating Rink
- (uncredited)
Ed Brady
- Conspirator to Get the District Attorney
- (uncredited)
Allan Cavan
- Doctor Kahn
- (uncredited)
Clay Clement
- Judge
- (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
- Policeman at Streetcar
- (uncredited)
James Donlan
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Robert Homans
- Streetcar Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film's earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis Monday 11 February 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9); it first aired in San Antonio 9 April 1957 on WOAI (Channel 4), in Lubbock TX 10 June 1957 on KCBD (Channel 11), in Miami 31 July 1957 on WCKT (Channel 7), in Albany 30 December 1957 on WTEN (Channel 10), in Portland OR 24 January 1958 on KGW (Channel 8), in Honolulu 25 January 1958 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Philadelphia 25 March 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Cleveland 29 April 1958 on KYW (Channel 3), in Kalamazoo 7 June 1957 on WKZO (Channel 3), and in Tucson 21 October 1958 on KVOA (Channel 4). With an uninviting title, and a relatively forgotten cast, as well as the usual pre-code aspects of the story, major market sponsors showed little interest in this one, and so it was only occasionally taken off the shelf, and, even then, in the less predominant locations. In more recent years a new generation of vintage film enthusiasts have "discovered" Lee Tracy, and its long unseen hidden pre-code delights, so it's since become a welcome occasional flyer on cable TV on Turner Classic Movies.
- Quotes
Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens: [regarding a bounced check] You'll learn that money doesn't come out of fountain pens.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lee Tracy: The Fastest Mouth in the West (2022)
Featured review
The write stuff for Lee Tracy
Sometimes when you run into an old, obscure movie, one of the credits will suggest whether it's worth watching. Take "The Nuisance," written for the screen by Sam and Bella Spewack, a team with a flair for sparkling dialogue whose Broadway credits include "Kiss Me Kate." In "The Nuisance," they provide Lee Tracy with the verbal firepoweer for his performance as a fast-talking, charmingly corrupt, ambulance-chasing lawyer whose pet target is the local streetcar company. With the help of Frank Morgan as a boozy medico with a gift for doctoring x-rays, he turns small accidents into big paydays. When the company hires lovely Madge Evans to entrap Tracy, the fun begins, building to a hilarious lesson in the antiquated laws of the land. (Watching one scene, I was reminded of the fact that it was still supposedly illegal to shoot rabbits from a moving elevated train in Manhattan even after all the El trains were torn down.) The result is a fast, frequently funny film with a surprisingly modern feel. In fact, despite scenes like a courtroom battle involving the fare to ride a streetcar -- five cents -- "The Nuisance" doesn't seem as outdated as the laws it satirizes
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- MikeMagi
- Jun 6, 2011
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- Accidents Wanted
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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