Fast Workers

Fast Workers
PLAY trailer; runtime 00:02:10
Directed byTod Browning (uncredited)
Written byKarl Brown (continuity)
Ralph Wheelwright (continuity)
Laurence Stallings (dialogue)
Based onRivets unpublished play
by John McDermott
Produced byTod Browning
StarringJohn Gilbert
Robert Armstrong
Mae Clarke
CinematographyPeveral Marley
Edited byBen Lewis
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 10, 1933 (1933-03-10)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$525,000[1]

Fast Workers, also known as Rivets, is a 1933 pre-Code drama film starring John Gilbert and Robert Armstrong as construction workers and romantic rivals for the character played by Mae Clarke. The film, which is based on the unproduced play Rivets by John McDermott, was directed by an uncredited Tod Browning.[2][3] The supporting cast features Virginia Cherrill and Sterling Holloway.

  1. ^ "Fast Workers (1933)", Toronto Film Society (Ontario, Canada), June 20, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  2. ^ The American Film Institute (1993). The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40. Los Angeles, California, 1993.
  3. ^ Herzogenrath, Bernd (editor). The Films of Tod Browning. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2006, p. 11. ISBN 190477251X