Sit Tight
- Winnie Lightner Winnie O'Neill
- Joe E. Brown: Herbert " Jojo " Mullins
- Paul Gregory: Tom Weston
- Claudia Dell: Sally
- Lotti Loder: Mrs. Willoughby
- Hobart Bosworth: Walter Dunlap
- Frank Hagney: Olaf " the Finn " Willoughby
- Snitz Edwards: Charley
All handles permits is an American Pre- Code film directed by Lloyd Bacon from the year 1931. The plot is based on a story by Rex Taylor.
Action
Doctor Winnie O'Neill is the feisty owner of Dr. O'Neill's health farm. It offered, among others, artificial sun baths, endurance training and muscle building courses. She is assisted by the slight, but talkative and fell in love with her assistant Herbert, who has earned numerous diplomas through distance learning courses, as well as a degree in wrestling. Since then, he only called " Jojo the Tiger " and believes that the only to be able to defeat everyone in the ring. However, as an assistant, he is only moderately useful, he flirts with a supposed patient, and this is to forget a client in the tanning apparatus. The patient, in turn, wanted to actually apply only to a job as a nurse and is outraged when they should unbutton the blouse front Jojo. Her husband Olaf delivers promptly with Jojo a chase and wrestles him to the ground at the end. The adventitious Tom Weston Jojo saves before finally Olaf, whom he defeated wrestling.
Winnie is thrilled because Olaf, her former ex-husband, was once a successful wrestler who won as " Olaf the Finn " among other titles. She wants to make Tom an equally successful wrestler. Tom 's right, because he has just lost his job as a securities trader at Sally's father because of his bitchy, but rich friend Sally Dunlap and is therefore looking for work. Sally does her behavior now sorry and so she is horrified when she hears that Tom wrestler wants to be. It announces to leave him, he should actually go into a ring. Tom trained yet hardworking and will eventually set up as a challenger against the reigning world heavyweight champion in the ring. Since Sally's father could not stop with words and money from his first fight him, he lets him take you on his ship, which sets sail shortly before the fight out of the cabin. Winnie, who has put all their money and some of her health farm on a win Tom is desperate. To gain time until the main battle, Jojo takes to an intermediate fighting a unfamiliar opponent, who turns out to be Olaf. Due to numerous coincidences Jojo succeeds to defeat Olaf. In the meantime, tethered in a ship's cabin, Tom has been able to draw attention to itself and is freed from the unsuspecting Sally. The ship brings both back to shore, where Sally finally attending the wrestling Toms, Tom wins. Tom and Sally become a couple again and Jojo is happy as he has promised Winnie the unlikely event of the return and victory Tom to marry him.
Production
All handles was allowed initially planned as a musical. Therefore, the musical stars Claudia Dell and Paul Gregory were engaged for the film, whose vocal parts were taken away from the film, came as musicals out of fashion. Only the Title Face It With a Smile, sung by Winnie Lightner, remained in the film.
The film contains a dream sequence Jojo, who plays in a harem. The slave Miami that his beloved Winnie looks like here appears to him as Sultan. Costumes and set were used from the 1930 film shot Kismet, which is considered lost today.
All handles allowed came in the U.S. cinemas on 28 February 1931. The German premiere took place on the TV channel Das Erste on 30 September 1996.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International Films Reviewed All handles allowed as " fairly amusing comedy of actor - trailer combination Lightner / Brown; the weak script makes for tired jokes. "