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Director:
S. Sylvan Simon
Writers:
Roy Huggins (story)
Frank Tashlin (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
June 1948 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance See more »
Tagline:
Based Upon a SATURDAY EVENING POST Story by Roy Huggins (original poster) See more »
Plot:
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... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Cast

  (in credits order)

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Abigail Adams ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews ... Detective Ferguson (uncredited)
Mary Bayless ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Stephen Bennett ... Secretary (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns ... Gardener (uncredited)
Ann Burr ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Cliff Clark ... Police Officer in Park (uncredited)
Chick Collins ... Blackie (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps ... Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Jay Eaton ... Chess Playing Club Member (uncredited)
Virginia Engels ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Verna Felton ... Junior's Grandmother (uncredited)
Mary Field ... Beaver Patrol Leader (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert ... Henchman (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton ... Henchman (uncredited)
Mary Adams Hayes ... Tenement Woman with Baby Buggy (uncredited)
George Hoagland ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Nan Holliday ... Lover in Automobile (uncredited)
Jimmy Hunt ... Junior (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson ... Henry Seward (uncredited)
Virgil Johanson ... Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
Billy Jones ... Herman (uncredited)
Charles Jordan ... Police Photographer (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ... Limping Fuller Brush Man (uncredited)
Paul Kruger ... Police Officer (uncredited)
Frank LaRue ... Irate Radio Listener Husband (uncredited)
Jimmy Lloyd ... Williams - Trist's Chauffeur (uncredited)
James Logan ... Billings - Trist's Butler (uncredited)
George Magrill ... Policeman in Interrogation Room (uncredited)
Vivian Mason ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Nita Mathews ... Card Playing Wife (uncredited)
Frank Mayo ... Chess Playing Club Member (uncredited)
Alex Melesh ... Bald Man (uncredited)
Peggy Miller ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
Roger Moore ... Detective Foster (uncredited)
William Newell ... Police Announcer (uncredited)
Rod O'Connor ... District Attorney (uncredited)
Garry Owen ... Creamy the Milkman (uncredited)
Jack Perrin ... Police Officer (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ... Fire Captain (uncredited)
Allen Ray ... Card Playing Husband (uncredited)
Fred F. Sears ... Bartender (uncredited)
David Sharpe ... Skitch (uncredited)
Susan Simon ... Beaver Patrol Member (uncredited)
Ann Staunton ... Trist's Maid (uncredited)
Michael Towne ... Lover in Automobile (uncredited)
Harry Tyler ... Gardener (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon ... Wife of Irate Radio Listener (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan ... Police Doctor (uncredited)
Dick Wessel ... Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Bud Wolfe ... Jiggers (uncredited)
Judith Woodbury ... Pretty Girl (uncredited)
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Directed by
S. Sylvan Simon 
 
Writing credits
Roy Huggins (story)

Frank Tashlin (screenplay) and
Devery Freeman (screenplay)

Produced by
S. Sylvan Simon .... producer
Edward Small .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Heinz Roemheld 
 
Cinematography by
Lester White 
 
Film Editing by
Al Clark 
 
Art Direction by
Carl Anderson 
Stephen Goosson 
 
Set Decoration by
Louis Diage 
Wilbur Menefee 
 
Costume Design by
Jean Louis 
 
Makeup Department
Helen Hunt .... hair stylist
Robert J. Schiffer .... makeup artist (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Wilbur McGaugh .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Lambert E. Day .... sound engineer (as Lambert Day)
 
Stunts
Chuck Hamilton .... stunt double (uncredited)
David Sharpe .... stunt double (uncredited)
Bud Wolfe .... stunt double (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ned Scott .... still photographer
Eddie Blaisdell .... grip (uncredited)
Roy Clark .... camera operator (uncredited)
Homer Van Pelt .... still photographer (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Herschel Burke Gilbert .... orchestrator (uncredited)
Clifford Vaughan .... orchestrator (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Rose Loewinger .... script supervisor
 

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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #12881) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15
Company:
Columbia Pictures CorporationSee more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
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.See more »
Quotes:
Red Jones:It's just as well, if I'd gone to another house, Dracula probably would've lived there.See more »
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Remington Steele: Blue Blooded Steele (#3.5)" (1984)See more »

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15 out of 17 people found the following review useful.
Post War Euphoria, Hollywood Style, 17 June 2002
Author: John T. Ryan (redryan64@hotmail.com) from Chicago, Illinois, United States

With the making of THE FULLER BRUSH MAN, Edward Small/Columbia Pictures,(1948) the period of the global hostilities of World War II is officially put to rest by Hollywood.The situations, the humor, the settings are all pointing to the theme of making a living and getting on with the newly won PEACE. There are no references to hostilities,rationing, the draft, nor any 'New Deal' Federal programs.The only connection to the previous wartime situation is the plot line involving the war surplus industry and the crooked individuals (in the story) fraudulently manipulating it.

This was probably thought to be a 'Small' picture in more ways than one by MGM, the big studio that lent out young star under contract, Red Skelton, for the lead;perhaps much in the same way that they had lent Clark Gable to Columbia & Frank Capra for 1934's IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. While it's true that Red did not come back to his home studio with the Oscar as did Gable (Best Actor),Capra(Best Director),Claudette Colbert (Best Actress), Robert Riskin (Best Writing Adaptation) and the Movie(Best Picture) did, but he did give a comic performance that, in this writer's opinion topped his previous outings at MGM.

Mr.Skelton had starred in the 3 comedies, WHISTLING IN THE DARK, WHISTLING IN DIXIE and WHISTLING IN BROOKLYN, all with the same Director (S.Sylvan Simon), but was never used better or was not funnier on the screen.

The film, like the previously mentioned Skelton vehicles, has no pretensions about it.It's there to make us laugh. And it succeeds in a most thorough manner,bringing in post war elements such as having to wait for automobiles and home appliances to be made, but placing orders first.The coming on the scene of Television is included. The highlight of the film is a cartoon-like chase toward the end of the picture.(As silly as it may be, my wife and myself were in stitches over it!) Otherwise the story is bright, cheerful,hopeful and looks toward much happier, more prosperous days following the great World War II.

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