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It's a gift (Motion picture)

A general store proprietor buys an orange ranch by mail and transports his family to California.

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  • "W.C. Fields it is a gift"

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  • ""In New Jersey, inept storekeeper Harold Bissonette is constantly badgered by his domineering wife Amelia, his obnoxious son Norman and his lovestruck daughter Mildred. When his Uncle Bean dies, Harold uses his $5,000 inheritance to buy an orange ranch in California through Mildred's boyfriend, John Durston, but does not tell Amelia. In the meantime, life's little details continually frustrate Harold. After several catastrophes at his store, variously involving a child, a blind man and molasses, he goes home to a wife who nags throughout the night. Harold tries to sleep on the balcony, where noisy neighbors, children and the milkman contrive to keep him awake. When John finds out that the ranch is no good for growing oranges, he tells Harold, who refuses to believe him. Harold packs up his family and they journey to California in a broken-down 'flivver, ' running into a number of escapades en route. The property in California turns out to be a run-down shack surrounded by acres of dirt and weeds. Amelia furiously takes the children and begins walking off, leaving Harold behind with his faithful dog. Just then their neighbor, Clarence Abernathy, drives up to tell Harold that two racetrack owners are coming to buy Harold's property. The men offer him $25,000 for the land, but despite Amelia's harassment, Harold holds out until he gets $44,000 for Abernathy's commission and a successful orange ranch for himself. In the end."
  • "A general store proprietor buys an orange ranch by mail and transports his family to California."
  • "A general store proprietor buys an orange ranch by mail and transports his family to California."@en
  • "Harold Bissonette is a bungling, henpecked grocer who dreams of California's golden sunshine. A small inheritance from his Uncle Bean tempts Bissonette to sell everything and buy an orange ranch sight unseen. Along the way, he matches wits with dogs, kids, and chicken feathers, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat at the last madcap minute."@en
  • "In this inverse, not to say perverse, piece of Americana, the horrors of small town life and a shrewish wife drive Fields (Bisionette) west in search of a Californian orange grove. Characteristically this is a loose assemblage of gags mostly perfected by Fields in his vaudeville days and time with Ziegfeld. Only Fields could get himself into a situation where he is, in effect, persecuted by a baby and a deaf and blind man."@en
  • "The vague and fumbling proprietor of a small-town general store sets off cross country to a California orange plantation purchased with the proceeds of his late uncle's will."@en
  • ""Harold Bissonette, a bungling, henpecked grocer dreaming of California's golden sunshine. A small inheritance from his Uncle Bean tempts Bissonette to sell everything and buy an orange ranch-- sight unseen. Along the way, he matches wits with dogs, children and chicken feathers, snatching success from the jaws of defeat at the last madcap minute"--Container."@en

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  • "It's a gift (Motion picture)"
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  • "It's a gift"
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  • "It's a gift (Motion picture : 1934)"

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