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Robert E. Hopkins

1886 – 1966 · Ottawa, Kansas, USA · Active 1926–1937
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What! No Beer?

What! No Beer?

★ 8.0
Writer

Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. With prohibition apparently on the verge of ending, Elmer's friend Jimmy Potts gets an idea to make them both rich by opening a brewery just before the legalization of alcoholic beverages. Their timing is off, and the police raid them, but their inept brewing has created a beer with no alcohol, so they are let off. But it has also resulted in a cheaply made beer, and bootlegger Spike Moran realizes that he can vastly increase his profits by partnering with Elmer and Jimmy. But none of them reckons with the competitor, another bootlegger, gangster Butch Lorado. Butch has a girlfriend....Elmer's dream girl, Hortense.

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Filmography

27 credits
Crew Credits
1930s 22 credits
1937
Saratoga Writer
Movie ★ 6.5
1936
Movie ★ 6.6
1933
Movie ★ 5.7
1933
Movie ★ 5.5
1931
The Cuban Love Song Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 4.8
1931
Movie ★ 5.3
1931
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 5.3
1931
Politics Dialogue
Movie ★ 6.9
1931
Reducing Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 5.1
1931
Movie ★ 6.2
1931
Movie ★ 6.7
1931
Movie ★ 6.7
1931
Movie ★ 5.3
1931
Casanova Against His Will Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 6.7
1931
Movie ★ 8.0
1930
Remote Control Screenplay
Movie ★ 5.4
1930
Movie ★ 5.4
1930
Movie ★ 6.0
1930
Movie ★ 7.0
1930
Movie ★ 5.7
1930
The Florodora Girl Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 5.5
1930
Movie ★ 10.0
1920s 5 credits
1929
Movie ★ 5.9
1928
Movie ★ 9.0
1928
Wickedness Preferred Title Designer
Movie ★ 4.5
1927
Movie ★ 3.0
1926
So This Is Paris Title Designer
Movie ★ 6.2