The Dummy

A dumb picture distinguished only by some oddities; Pitts played a kidnaper; it was March's first movie job (he was busily working on stage in "The Royal Family" at night); Ruth Chatterton was top-billed and had even less to do than March, who never got one close-up; Oakie, Pallette, and Tucker were hardly noticed. Title comes from the fact that Mickey Bennett, the office boy in John Cromwell's detective agency, pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to nab the kidnapers who took Chatterton and March's child, Vondell Darr. When Bennett mumbles in his sleep, he's found out by the miscreants and eventually saved before they can do any harm to him. All ends well as the...