{{short description|1930 film by Ted Wilde}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Clancy in Wall Street | image = Clancy in Wall Street (1930).webm | caption = | director = [[Ted Wilde]] | producer = [[Edward Small]] | based_on = Story by Jack Wagner<br>Ralph Bell | cinematography = Harry Jackson | editing = Phil Cahn | studio = Edward Small Productions | distributor = Aristocrat Pictures | released = {{Film date|1930|03|15}} | runtime = 76 minutes | country = United States | language = English}}
'''''Clancy in Wall Street''''' is a 1930 American [[pre-Code]] comedy film.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150723182725/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71026/Clancy-in-Wall-Street/ ''Clancy in Wall Street''], tcm.com; accessed July 23, 2015.</ref> It stars Charles Murray, who had made a number of films for [[Edward Small]].
It was also known as ''Clancy Caught Short'' and was described as the first comedy about the stock market crash.<ref>{{Cite news|title=RICHARD DIX FILM NEXT AT ORPHEUM: "Seven Keys to Baldpate" Marks Debut of Star in New Medium|date=February 11, 1930|work=Los Angeles Times|page=7}}</ref> It was the last film for director [[Ted Wilde]], who had died in December of the previous year.
==Plot== Plumber Michael Clancy, fixing up some pipe on the stock exchange, accidentally buys some stock and makes a quick $200 on a 20 percent margin. He wants to continue but his partner, Andy MacIntosh, refuses to get involved. Clancy makes a fortune, leaves his business, and crashes high society, ignoring his old friend, and urging his daughter, Katie, to reject MacIntosh's son in favor of Freddie Saunders. Then the stock market crashes.<ref>{{Cite news|title=RUSS MODERN SCORES HIT: Serge Prokofieff Achieves Ovation for Concerto Composer-Pianist Plays Own Work With Orchestra Solo Features Dominant on Philharmonic Program|author=Schallert, Edwin|date=February 15, 1930|work=Los Angeles Times|page=A7}}</ref>
==Cast== *[[Charles Murray (American actor)|Charles Murray]] as Michael Clancy *[[Aggie Herring]] as Mrs. Clancy *[[Lucien Littlefield]] as Andy MacIntosh *[[Edward Nugent]] as Donald MacIntosh *[[Miriam Seegar]] as Katie Clancy *[[Reed Howes]] as Freddie Saunders
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020770/ ''Clancy in Wall Street''], imdb.com
{{Ted Wilde}} {{Edward Small}}
[[Category:1930 American films]] [[Category:1930 English-language films]] [[Category:1930 films]] [[Category:1930 comedy films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:American comedy films]] [[Category:English-language comedy films]] [[Category:Films directed by Ted Wilde]] [[Category:Films produced by Edward Small]] [[Category:Wall Street films]]
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