Hard to Handle is a 1933 American 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 public is like a cow, bellowing—bellowing!—to be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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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
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