The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
Comedy · History · Romance
Overview
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Cast
- Francis Lederer as Max Christmann
- Joan Bennett as Prudence Kirkland
- Charles Ruggles as Aaron Kirkland
- Mary Boland as Comfort Kirkland
- Barbara Barondess as Meg Mallory
- Minor Watson as Colonel Sherwood
- Irving Bacon as Bijah
- Walter Kingsford as Rev. Lyman Banks
- Adrian Morris as Thad Jennings
- Duke York as Jonathan