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Director:
Elliott Nugent
Writers:
Stephen Morehouse Avery (writer)
Julius J. Epstein (writer)
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Release Date:
4 April 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists... more | add synopsis
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The right to free is what makes a man and his deeds define a man. more (16 total)

Cast

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Henry Fonda ... Prof. Tommy Turner

Olivia de Havilland ... Ellen Turner

Joan Leslie ... Patricia Stanley

Jack Carson ... Joe Ferguson
Eugene Pallette ... Ed Keller

Herbert Anderson ... Michael Barnes

Hattie McDaniel ... Cleota
Ivan F. Simpson ... Dr. Fredrick Damon
Don DeFore ... Wally Myers
Jean Ames ... Hot Garters Gardner
Minna Phillips ... Blanche Damon
Regina Wallace ... Myrtle Keller
Frank Mayo ... Coach Sprague
William B. Davidson ... Alumnus at Rally
Bobby Barnes ... Nutsy Miller
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Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

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Trivia:
Gene Tierney starred in the Broadway production as Patricia Stanley, she was to be loaned out to Warner Bros. but was cast in John Ford's Tobacco Road (1941) instead. more
Quotes:
Ellen Turner: You'd better take a hot water bottle to bed with you.
Prof. Tommy Turner: Nice of you to arrange for a substitute.
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Movie Connections:
Version of "BBC Play of the Month: The Male Animal (#4.2)" (1968) more
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The right to free is what makes a man and his deeds define a man., 16 March 2004
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Author: raskimono

Henry Fonda is our intellectual, idealistic professor at Midwestern University. He is married to a woman much younger than him played by Olivia de Havilland. Fonda is going to read a letter as an example in his English class to give an example of great speeches written by illiterate people. The problem is, the man was condemned as an anarchist and traitor and sentenced to death. This gets the trustees of the University bent out of shape and try to stop him. His wife, an ex-cheerleader is being romanced by this ex-football QB played by Jack Carson. They once dated and he feels less of a man around him. The trouble in his professional and domestic life propel this comic satire. This film is based on the play by Elliot Nugent who also directs. Obviously, this movie is taking on current issues of the day to which I am unfamiliar but eager to research. It is so current that it can be applied to today's environment and politics; people who are fearful and criticize things they haven't heard or seen as the letter Fonda intends to read; nobody knows the contents. The pressure to conform and governments who censor political opinion that is dissenting or alternative, school bodies who train our students to focus on the material issues over the immaterial ones. For, the Chancellor is only interested in the winning football team they have and he feels that has ensured his greatness and reputation making him a man to be reckoned with. But other things make a man and Fonda who probably has delivered the best monologues in movies in such movies as The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry men, Ox-bow incident, Mister Roberts and Fail-safe delivers another one here that makes the movie. Study this movie for its take today on the follies of censorship.

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