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Six Cylinder Love (1931 film)

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Six Cylinder Love
Directed byThornton Freeland
Written byWilliam Conselman
Norman Houston
Based onSix Cylinder Love by William Anthony McGuire
Produced byWilliam Fox
John W. Considine Jr.
StarringSpencer Tracy
Sidney Fox
Edward Everett Horton
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byJ. Edwin Robbins
Production
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Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • May 10, 1931 (1931-05-10)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$327,000[1]

Six Cylinder Love is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Fox and Edward Everett Horton. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and is a remake of their 1923 silent original. Both films are based on the 1921 Broadway play.[2][3] It recorded a loss of $25,000.[1] A further remake The Honeymoon's Over was released in 1939.

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A fast-talking auto salesman persuades a couple of newlyweds to purchase a new car that they can ill afford to boost their social prestige. It soon proves to be more trouble than it is worth, leading to the wife getting into trouble by drunk driving and the husband to fall foul of his boss. Eventually, with the help of the auto salesman, they find someone else to sell the car to.

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