B-Movies : Three of a Kind (1936) COMEDY
Three of a Kind (1936) Three of a Kind is a (1936) American film directed by Phil Rosen. It was made by Invincible Pictures Corporation which was later absorbed into Republic Pictures. Plot summary Barbara Penfield (Evalyn Knapp) tries to persuade her father, laundry magnate F. Thorndyke Penfield (Richard Carle), to invest in a business venture proposed by her sweetheart Rodney Randall (Bradley Page). Her father, knowing Randall to be a fortune hunter, refuses and stops her allowance and freezes her bank account. Undeterred from financing Randall but deprived of cash, Barbara decides to trade in her expensive car for a very cheap one. While she's out on a test drive with a salesman, her car is fraudulently sold by con man 'Con' Cornelius (Berton Churchill) who is loitering around the car yard. The buyer, Jerry Bassett (Chick Chandler), is a Penfield Company laundry worker who has just quit after winning best employee award and $1,000. He sets out for the Royal Valley holiday resort and on the road picks up Barbara who, after the cheap car broke down, is hitchhiking to a rendezvous there with Randall. She doesn't recognize her own car which Bassett is driving, and introduces herself using the false name Beatrice Payne.
Three of a Kind (1936) Three of a Kind is a (1936) American film directed by Phil Rosen. It was made by Invincible Pictures Corporation which was later absorbed into Republic Pictures. Plot summary Barbara Penfield (Evalyn Knapp) tries to persuade her father, laundry magnate F. Thorndyke Penfield (Richard Carle), to invest in a business venture proposed by her sweetheart Rodney Randall (Bradley Page). Her father, knowing Randall to be a fortune hunter, refuses and stops her allowance and freezes her bank account. Undeterred from financing Randall but deprived of cash, Barbara decides to trade in her expensive car for a very cheap one. While she's out on a test drive with a salesman, her car is fraudulently sold by con man 'Con' Cornelius (Berton Churchill) who is loitering around the car yard. The buyer, Jerry Bassett (Chick Chandler), is a Penfield Company laundry worker who has just quit after winning best employee award and $1,000. He sets out for the Royal Valley holiday resort and on the road picks up Barbara who, after the cheap car broke down, is hitchhiking to a rendezvous there with Randall. She doesn't recognize her own car which Bassett is driving, and introduces herself using the false name Beatrice Payne.