← Back to Cinema Atlas
Discover great cinema and the connections that made it possible.
The Magnificent Dope
UNITED STATES · 1942

The Magnificent Dope

Walter Lang
deception and manipulation ambition vs. contentment success and failure romantic rivalry self-improvement
Stream on Criterion → ▶ Trailer

Synopsis

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

More from Walter Lang

United States
Snow White and the Three Stooges
1961 • United States
View →
Can-Can
1960 • United States
View →
Desk Set
1957 • United States
View →