Fast Company (1929 film)

Fast Company
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Walton Butterfield Patrick Kearney Joseph L. Mankiewicz Florence Ryerson
Based on	Elmer The Great 1928 play by George M. Cohan Ring Lardner
Starring	Jack Oakie Evelyn Brent
Cinematography	Edward Cronjager
Edited by	Jane Loring
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 14, 1929 (1929-09-14)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Fast Company is a 1929 American Pre-Code sports comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Jack Oakie and Evelyn Brent. It is based upon the 1928 play Elmer the Great by George M. Cohan and Ring Lardner. According to the Internet Movie Database, the UCLA Film and Television Archive has reels 1, 2, and 3 of this film, with reel 4 having disintegrated in 1990.

Plot

Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.

Wade cons the ballplayer into thinking the actress is falling for him, which inspires a home run from Elmer to win the big game.

Cast

• Evelyn Brent as Evelyn Corey
• Jack Oakie as Elmer Kane
• Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Bert Wade
• Sam Hardy as Dave Walker
• Arthur Housman as Barney Barlow
• Gwen Lee as Rosie La Clerq
• Chester Conklin as C. of C. President
• E. H. Calvert as Platt
• Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. Kane
• Bert Rome as Hank Gordon

See also

• List of baseball films
• List of partially lost films
• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

External links

• Fast Company at IMDb
• Fast Company at the TCM Movie Database
• Fast Company at AllMovie
• Fast Company at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films