Caught in the Act

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.

Cast

Henry Armetta

as Mike Ripportella

Inez Palange

as Mary Ripportella

Iris Meredith

as Lucy Ripportella

Robert Baldwin

as Jim Keene

Charles Miller

as Leonard G. Brandon

Maxine Leslie

as Fay Kingman

William Newell

as Sgt. Riley

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