The fathers destroyed by demon rum are played by Walter Huston and Lewis Stone, and look for Jimmy Durante as a bearded federal agent! Hey guys, In Luskan we have this traditional foot race, in winter, where participants stuff their clothes with ice and snow and then proceed in running through the streets. Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her. True, that doesn't stop him from being somewhat funny, cracking jokes and displaying his comedic talents, so anyone who likes Durante will enjoy his participation in this movie. The Wet Parade is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Walter Huston, Lewis Stone and Jimmy Durante. 1932; 2 HR 00 MIN; NR; A lengthy drama based on an Upton Sinclair novel, which shows the evils both of drinking and of the Prohibition law. 17 of 19 people found this review helpful. The Wet Parade An amoral chauffeur seeks to seduce a young bride. The AFI catalog states that MGM paid $18,000[2] ($287,000 in 2020) for the rights to Upton Sinclair's novel. In The Wet Parade, Upton Sinclair gives us the perspective of bluenoses, the temperate people who supported Prohibition. Maggie May comforts Kip. “I'm just a low down cowardly drunkard,” he tells her. share. Maggie May realizes that she and Kip have been fighting the same battle, and they warm to each other. 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In the book, Kip is killed, and Maggie May, already a speaker against "Demon Rum", issues a call to arms to the women of America to rally for enforcement, financial support and community action. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? After the funeral, his friends toast him; Maggie smashes the whiskey decanter, raging: “I hope I live to see the day that every bit that was ever made was poured into the cesspool where it belongs.”. Drama. It's available to watch. In a bar, they watch teenagers getting drunk. There is the printing of labels of all sorts, the pouring of denatured alcohol into barrels, the filling of bottles, the corking machine, sticking labels on bottles, clamping the tinfoil over the corks, the stamping of "Canada" on gunnysacks, wetting the sacks, passing them through salt; and then, after they are filled with a dozen bottles, they are sewn up and ready for the unfortunate consumer. 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