Shoot the Works is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon, Gene Fowler, Howard J.

The film stars Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Arline Judge and William Frawley.

Their error resided, not in their well-intentioned efforts to perform a major operation upon a bawdy play, but their attempt to transfer the guttersnipe population of "The Great Magoo" to the screen in the first place.

Lacking anything in its structure that might be mistaken for a thesis, the story depends for its lure upon a cynical contemplation of a gaudy and fly-blown crew of small-time show people.

Staking its claims to recognition upon its success in escaping the usual beery sentimentalisms with which the drama regards her children, the work, in its film version, turns a back somersault into the emotional commonplaces which it originally sought to avoid.