So's Your Uncle | |
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Directed by | Jean Yarbrough |
Written by | Clyde Bruckman |
Starring | Billie Burke and Donald Woods |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | December 1, 1945 |
Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
So's Your Uncle is 1943 comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Billie Burke and Donald Woods.
A man impersonates his uncle and runs into trouble with his girlfriend's aunt.
The film was part of a lawsuit by Harold Lloyd against Universal Pictures. He claims that the film's writer, Clyde Bruckman, copied sequences from Lloyd's films, The Freshman , Movie Crazy and Welcome Danger in their films Her Lucky Night , So's Your Uncle and Lucky Man . [1] The court awarded Lloyd $60,000 for Movie Crazy being infringed by So's Your Uncle. He settled with Universal for more than $100,000 for the other two films. [2] Bruckman had previously worked with Lloyd on Movie Crazy and Welcome Danger.
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