I've Got Your Number

Infobox_Film
name = I've Got Your Number


caption = Promotional photo
writer = William Rankin
Warren Duff
Sidney Sutherland
starring = Joan Blondell
Pat O'Brien
director = Ray Enright
producer =
music =
cinematography = Arthur L. Todd
editing = Clarence Kolster
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = February 3, 1934
runtime = 69 minutes
country = United States
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:96168
imdb_id = 0025290|

"I've Got Your Number" is a 1934 Warner Bros. Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright.

Plot

Switchboard operator Marie Lawson (Joan Blondell) is conned by admirer Nicky (Gordon Westcott), who tells her it is just a practical joke, into redirecting a phone call. However, Nicky uses what he learns to his own benefit, costing the intended recipient a lot of money. When the victim complains to Marie's boss, telephone repairmen Terry Riley (Pat O'Brien) and John (Allen Jenkins) are called in to see if the phone was tapped. When it is found not to be, Marie loses her job.

Terry is attracted to Marie and eventually talks her into a date. He also gets her hired by businessman John P. Schuyler (Henry O'Neill), whom he had earlier saved from a live electrical wire.

When Marie runs into Nicky later, she lets slip that her new employer is expecting a delivery of $90,000 in bonds. As a result, Nicky is able to fool the courier into thinking he is Schuyler and giving him the bonds while Marie is distracted by a flood of calls from his accomplices. When she realizes what has happened, she goes looking for Nicky, but this only serves to make her look guilty. Terry is questioned by the police and then released so he can lead them to her hiding place. It works and she is arrested.

When an expensive lawyer shows up on her behalf, Terry becomes suspicious and taps his line with John's reluctant help. Finally, he is able to trace a call to where Nicky and his gang are hiding out. When he goes there, he is easily caught and placed in a bedroom after the phone is ripped out. However, he is not searched. He hooks up a spare phone he has and is able to contact John to bring help. The crooks are captured.

Terry and Marie get married, but on their wedding night, many of Terry's co-workers show up to "repair" their phone.

Production

While filming, Blondell had to have an emergency appendectomy. The last scene had to be shot at her home because she was not allowed to travel.

Cast

* Joan Blondell as Marie Lawson
* Pat O'Brien as Terry Riley
* Glenda Farrell as Bonnie, aka "Madame Francis", a fake medium who uses a telephone to fool her victims into thinking they are speaking to their dead loved ones
* Allen Jenkins as John
* Eugene Pallette as Joseph Flood, Terry's exasperated boss
* Henry O'Neill as John P. Schuyler
* Louise Beavers as Crystal, Bonnie's accomplice
* Gordon Westcott as Nicky

External links

*tcmdb title|id=3362