The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947 · 90 min · Comedy
Harold Diddlebock, a college water boy, comes off the bench in 1923 and wins the big game, and E. J. Waggleberry, cheering in the stands, gives him a job. Twenty-two years later Harold is let go from the same bookkeeper's desk. A stranger named Wormy steers him into a bar, where the bartender…
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