Just Imagine (1930) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1930 · 113 mins · English

Directed by

David Butler

Starring

Maureen O'Sullivan, George Irving, El Brendel, Mischa Auer, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Albertson

In a bizarre 1980 New York where airplanes replace cars, numbers replace names, pills replace food, marriages are arranged by the state and babies are lab‑created, scientists revive a 1930 lightning‑struck man, naming him “Single O”. He befriends J‑21, an under‑appreciated worker unable to marry his love. When J‑21 is chosen for a four‑month Mars expedition by a renegade scientist, Single O stows away. On Mars they encounter scantily‑clad women performing Busby Berkeley‑style dances and a cult‑like worship of a corpulent middle‑aged man.