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The early 1900s with its Mann Act (disallowing women to be transported across state lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him. He simply has her marry his unmarried buddy. However, it doesnt take very long before both men start laying claim to her affection. Until, that is, shes about to be cut out of her parents fortune. So, a new scheme is devised, which only adds to their problems, as well as to the sly whimsy of this movie.
Its sometime in the 1920s, when it is illegal, as per the Mann Act, for a man to transport a woman across state lines for immoral purposes, which is what married Nicky Stumpo wants to do with Freddie Bigard. Since he cant marry her himself for that purpose of crossing the state line, Nicky instead enlists his friend Oscar Sullivan, who is trying to evade the local police for embezzlement, to marry Freddie instead. The three, who plan to live together, will masquerade as an extended family under assumed surnames, Freddie and Oscar indeed married, with Nicky Freddies brother, while behind closed doors Oscar will be the platonic third wheel in Nicky and Freddies love nest. Although he is purportedly doing it for love, Nicky really wants access to Freddies money, she being an heiress to a fortune about which Nicky tries to convince Oscar is untrue. The situation becomes more complicated with the combination of Oscar wanting to have his own way with Freddie, as he also does confirm Freddies own personal wealth, and as Freddie informs her husband and "brother" that she plans on giving away her money. As such, Nicky and Oscar figure the only thing they can do to reach that goal of getting her money is to do away with her permanently - making it look either like suicide or an accident - which is easier said than done in how hapless they are as murderers.
Stockard Channing
Freddie Bigard
Jack Nicholson
Oscar Sullivan aka Dix
Warren Beatty
Nicky Wilson
Florence Stanley
Mrs. Gould
Richard B. Shull
Chief Detective
Tom Newman
John the Barber
John Fiedler
Photographer
Scatman Crothers
Fisherman
Ian Wolfe
Justice of the Peace
Rose Michtom
Wife of Justice of the Peace
Brian Avery
Airline Steward
Dub Taylor
Rattlesnake Tom
Catlin Adams
Girl Lover
Christopher Guest
Boy Lover
Jim Antonio
1st Policeman
Vic Vallaro
2nd Policeman
Joe Tornatore
Detective
Kathryn Grody
Police Secretary
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