---
title: 'Hard to Handle (1933)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mervyn LeRoy'
released: '1933-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 78
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-to-handle-1933'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024090/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard to Handle (1933)

1933 · 78 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord)
- **Director of Photography:** [Barney McGill](https://cinepixo.com/people/barney-mcgill)
- **Editor:** [William Holmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-holmes)

## Cast

- [Emma Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/emma-dunn)
- [Allen Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-jenkins)
- [Sterling Holloway](https://cinepixo.com/people/sterling-holloway)
- [Walter Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-walker)
- [Gavin Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/gavin-gordon)
- [Don Brodie](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-brodie)
- [Ruth Donnelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-donnelly)
- [Mary Brian](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-brian)
- [James Cagney](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-cagney)
- [Claire Dodd](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-dodd)
- [Robert McWade](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mcwade)
- [Douglass Dumbrille](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglass-dumbrille)
- [Jack Crawford](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-crawford)

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