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Released
1936 · FILM

Three on a Limb

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
18 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Scoutmaster Elmer Brown falls in love with a carhop who works at a drive-in diner. His romantic feelings are complicated by the fact that she is engaged to a policeman. Determined to remove Elmer from the picture, the fiancé begins giving him traffic tickets for every minor violation he can find. Moved by Elmer's plight, the girl decides to run off with him. She reveals that she is also being pursued by another man named Oscar, and the situation becomes even more tangled when it is revealed that her father supports the policeman while her mother favors Oscar. The conflict culminates in a chaotic wedding ceremony where all three men compete for her hand, ultimately resulting in Elmer successfully winning her affection.

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Principal cast & crew: 11

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Gus Peterson

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