I Like Your Nerve

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I Like Your Nerve
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Directed by William C. McGann
Written by Roland Pertwee
Houston Branch
Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Loretta Young
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byPeter Fritch
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • September 12, 1931 (1931-9-12)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

I Like Your Nerve is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William C. McGann, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Boris Karloff has a small role. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

In Latin America, Larry O'Brien sees Diane Forsythe and quickly falls in love. She, however, is engaged to marry the much older Clive Lattimer. Larry discovers that her motive is to save her stepfather, Areal Pacheco, from being shot. Pacheco, the Minister of Finance, has embezzled $200,000 from the national treasury, and an audit is scheduled soon. Lattimer is extremely wealthy and willing to make up the shortfall in exchange for Diane.

To keep Larry from disrupting the arrangement, Pacheco has his butler Luigi arrange Diane's kidnapping (to Lattimer's country estate). Larry rescues Diane and leaves her in the care of his friend, Archie Lester. Then he telephones a newspaper to report his "ransom" demand of $200,000. Citizens demand Pacheco pay the sum, but Larry points out that Diane's fiancé is the only person in the country with access to that much money. Lattimer refuses at first, but soon caves in to the outrage. Larry collects the money at the arranged dropoff point and later presents it to Pacheco, who then cancels Diane's engagement to Lattimer.

Cast

Production

Warner Bros. paired Fairbanks with Young in a number of sound films. [5]

See also

References

  1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: I Like Your Nerve
  2. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress p.86 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  3. Nollen, Scott Allen; Nollen, Yuyun Yuningsih (January 4, 2021). Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-4086-0.
  4. Mank, Gregory William (March 8, 2010). Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration, with a Complete Filmography of Their Films Together. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-5472-3.
  5. Ankerich, Michael G. (December 14, 2011). Broken Silence: Conversations with 23 Silent Film Stars. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-8533-8.