To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.
Edward Brophy
- Man Outside Beauty Parlor
- (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Hunter with Rifle at Duel
- (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Fred Malatesta
- Tony's Second
- (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan
- Tony's Second
- (uncredited)
Stanhope Wheatcroft
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Florence Wix
- Casino Patron
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"MGM"'s first attempt to promote Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante as a comedy team. The other two pairings of Keaton and Durante are "Speak Easily (1932)" and "What-No Beer? (1933)."
- Quotes
Tony Lagorce: [meeting for a duel with Elmer] Anything! Swords. Pistols. I don't care. I'll kill him anyway.
McCracken: What's the difference? Swords, pi...
Elmer: Satisfy both sides. Let him have a sword and I'll use a pistol.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Le plombier amoureux (1932)
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The original play needed more work for a good film comedy
But for Buster Keaton's antics, there's little humor in this film. "The Passionate Plumber" may have been a big hit on the French Stage, but that play needed much more work and revision to make it work for the silver screen. Two cases in point are in two of the lead roles other than those of Keaton and Jimmy Durante. Irene Purcell as Patricia Jardine and Gilbert Roland as Tony Lagorce are two characters that are suitable for the stage but definitely not for the screen. Those who have seen and enjoy stage productions know that repetitious scenes can be very funny, and they may happen up to half a dozen times or so. But In the faster moving and more natural settings captured on film, two or three times at most can scenes be repeated for comedy. After that they become very tedious and outright boring.
Well, I didn't count the number of times that Roland's Tony and Purcell's Patricia had their on-again, off-again romantic encounters But they soon weighed heavily on the film and weighed it down. And, the dialog was almost identical in each repetition. Tony, saying, "Patricia, you're the only one for me," and "I love you and you need me." Then, she saying "But you're married, and I don't want to see you anymore," and then, "Tony, I love you, wait for me." The writers for this film apparently couldn't come up with something original to either change their scenes and vary the script, or to reduce these encounters and put some more Keaton and Durante into the film.
This film is nowhere on the level of "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath." It doesn't have the usual dose of Keaton pratfalls and physical mishaps that always provide laughs. This is one case in which the source material drags down the type of comedy for which Keaton was known and best at.
Here are some of the few good lines from this film.
Elmer Tuttle, with seconds arguing over choice of weapons for a duel, "Satisfy both sides. Let him have a sword and I'll use a pistol."
Julius McCracken, "That guy's done more chiselin' than Rodin." Elmer Tuttle, "Who's Rodin?" Julius, "The chiseler." Elmer: Oh.
Patricia Jardine, "Have you ever been in jail." Elmer Tuttle, "Once." Patricia, "What for?" Elmer, "To see my father."
Patricia Jardine, "You can do more damage with one pair of hands than any man ever saw."
Patricia Jardine, startled by Elmer behind her, "Eek! How'd you get out of that bathroom?" Elmer Tuttle, "You'd be surprised what a little talcum powder'll do."
Well, I didn't count the number of times that Roland's Tony and Purcell's Patricia had their on-again, off-again romantic encounters But they soon weighed heavily on the film and weighed it down. And, the dialog was almost identical in each repetition. Tony, saying, "Patricia, you're the only one for me," and "I love you and you need me." Then, she saying "But you're married, and I don't want to see you anymore," and then, "Tony, I love you, wait for me." The writers for this film apparently couldn't come up with something original to either change their scenes and vary the script, or to reduce these encounters and put some more Keaton and Durante into the film.
This film is nowhere on the level of "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath." It doesn't have the usual dose of Keaton pratfalls and physical mishaps that always provide laughs. This is one case in which the source material drags down the type of comedy for which Keaton was known and best at.
Here are some of the few good lines from this film.
Elmer Tuttle, with seconds arguing over choice of weapons for a duel, "Satisfy both sides. Let him have a sword and I'll use a pistol."
Julius McCracken, "That guy's done more chiselin' than Rodin." Elmer Tuttle, "Who's Rodin?" Julius, "The chiseler." Elmer: Oh.
Patricia Jardine, "Have you ever been in jail." Elmer Tuttle, "Once." Patricia, "What for?" Elmer, "To see my father."
Patricia Jardine, "You can do more damage with one pair of hands than any man ever saw."
Patricia Jardine, startled by Elmer behind her, "Eek! How'd you get out of that bathroom?" Elmer Tuttle, "You'd be surprised what a little talcum powder'll do."
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- Mar 21, 2023
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By what name was The Passionate Plumber (1932) officially released in Canada in English?
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