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The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
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June 1948 (USA)
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Based Upon a SATURDAY EVENING POST Story by Roy Huggins (original poster) more
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Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man...
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Frantic screwball with the Tashlin touch...
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Red Skelton | ... | Red Jones | |
| Janet Blair | ... | Ann Elliot | |
| Don McGuire | ... | Keenan Wallick | |
| Hillary Brooke | ... | Mildred Trist | |
| Adele Jergens | ... | Miss Sharmley | |
| Ross Ford | ... | Freddie Trist | |
| Trudy Marshall | ... | Sara Franzen | |
| Nicholas Joy | ... | Commissioner Gordon Trist | |
| Donald Curtis | ... | Gregory Cruckston | |
| Arthur Space | ... | Police Lt. Quint |
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That Mad Mr. Jones (UK)
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93 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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USA:Approved (certificate #12881) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15
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A major part of the movie involves a murder and a disappearing dagger. Red Skelton's character discovers someone has made the dagger by soaking the handle of one of his brushes in hot water and reshaping it. When the handle is put back into hot water it returns to its original shape. After trying numerous ways to make this look realistic with special effects the producers finally went to a plastics company and had them actually develop a "memory plastic". It was such a big story that it was in an article covered in "Life" magazine.
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Keenan Wallick:
[as he sees Ann kissing Red, who he thinks is a murderer] Arrest that man!
Lt. Quint: Why, is there a law against it?
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Lt. Quint: Why, is there a law against it?
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Referenced in "Remington Steele: Blue Blooded Steele (#3.5)" (1984)
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Is Fuller Brush a real company?Does the Mean Widdle Kid appear in this movie?
What does Red mean by "Philo Jones"?
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The opening scenes of "The Fuller Brush Man" are hardly promising: Red Skelton, playing a ne'er-do-well who can't hold a job, hopes to impress his lady-love with his skills as a door-to-door salesman, not knowing that he's been sent to the worst neighborhood in town by his adversary, his gal's other boyfriend. Seeing charming Skelton (with his happy chatter and lilting walk) being set-up as a chump is awfully sour, and the slapstick chaos which ensues isn't funny as a result. Thankfully, writer Frank Tashlin quickly gets off this baleful track, turning the proceedings instead into a comedic murder mystery, with Red one of the suspects in the killing of his former boss. The new plot thread--while neither original nor ingenious--does allow Skelton lots of funny business as an actor, with Janet Blair the perfect counterpart to Red's unintentional hero. The wild, free-for-all finale in a warehouse has staging and stunt-work as good as anything from the silent era, if not better. No wonder this was a box-office smash in 1948--it leaves the audience with a succession of happy highs. Followed two years later by "The Fuller Brush Girl". *** from ****