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6.2/10   43 votes
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Writers:
Georg Kaiser (play)
Richard Maibaum (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
8 March 1940 (USA) more
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Mild mannered Vern runs a pet store that seems to gather more pets than he sells. One day he receives... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Frank Morgan ... Vernon 'Vern' Adams

Billie Burke ... Cora Adams
Ann Rutherford ... Billie Adams
John Shelton ... Lanny Shea
Reginald Owen ... Hemingway, the Bass Player
Donald Meek ... Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
Nat Pendleton ... Roscoe
Frank Albertson ... Ernest
Harold Huber ... Tony, the Tuba Player
Hobart Cavanaugh ... Ambrose Bundy

Ann Morriss ... Myra
Don Castle ... Spigley 'Spig', a Band Member
Tom Rutherford ... Mortimer 'Morty' Hopkins, Jr.
Renie Riano ... Sarah Osborn. the Milk Maid
Richard Carle ... John Reed 'Fishface' Thomas
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Runtime:
79 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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No information about the original play, "Der Mutige Seefahrer", has been found. The English language version, called "The Courageous Seaman" had no Broadway run. more
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Version of Der mutige Seefahrer (1935) more
Soundtrack:
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow more

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Not quite The Wizard Of Oz, 10 December 2004
4/10
Author: Clay Loomis from Arroyo Grande, California

Starring Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, who starred as "The Wizard" and "The Good Witch" in The Wizard Of Oz a year earlier, you'd expect quite a bit from this movie. Unfortunately, it's a far cry from that 1939 classic.

In an incredibly far-fetched comedic plot, a family father (Morgan) is presumed dead and his wife (Burke) and family cash in his life insurance policy. Dad comes home unexpectedly, of course, and hilarity ensues (well, kinda).

An inoffensive little movie that is well acted all around, but really has little story to offer. It can still keep your interest for 80 minutes when the other 90 cable channels are offering nothing better, as is often the case. I'm always amazed by the quaintness of these earlier films, when people actually fainted when surprised (did that ever REALLY happen?) and grown brothers slept in the same bed.

Pleasant enough, just don't expect movie magic.

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