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The Pursuit of Happiness

5.8 75 mins Comedy   History   Romance   1934
Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): Alexander Hall

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.

Casts of The Pursuit of Happiness

Francis Lederer

as Max Christmann

Joan Bennett

as Prudence Kirkland

Charles Ruggles

as Aaron Kirkland

Mary Boland

as Comfort Kirkland

Barbara Barondess

as Meg Mallory

Minor Watson

as Colonel Sherwood

Irving Bacon

as Bijah

Walter Kingsford

as Rev. Lyman Banks

Adrian Morris

as Thad Jennings

Duke York

as Jonathan

Burr Caruth

as Rev. Myles

Jules Cowles

as The Drunk

Spencer Charters

as Sam Evans

Holmes Herbert

as Gen. Sir Henry Clinton

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