| Earthworm Tractors | |
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_1.jpg) Film still with June Travis and Joe E. Brown | |
| Directed by | Ray Enright |
| Screenplay by | Hugh Cummings Richard Macaulay Paul Gerard Smith Joe Traub Peter Milne |
| Based on | short stories in The Saturday Evening Post by William Hazlett Upson |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff (producer) Hal B. Wallis (executive producer) |
| Starring | Joe E. Brown June Travis Guy Kibbee |
| Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
| Edited by | Doug Gould |
| Music by | Leo F. Forbstein |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Earthworm Tractors is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Ray Enright[1] and starring Joe E. Brown, June Travis and Guy Kibbee. The film is also known as A Natural Born Salesman in the United Kingdom.
The film is based on characters created by William Hazlett Upson in a series of stories that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. The series featured Alexander Botts, an eternally optimistic self-proclaimed "natural-born salesman", and the Earthworm Tractor Company, and was inspired in part by Upson's actual work experience with the Caterpillar Tractor Company.