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February 1950 (USA)
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A Mule Wiser Than Many of the Humans. full summary | add synopsis
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Mule
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Beautiful Woman
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Sergeant
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Horse
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Talking Animal
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Cinematical Seven: When Talking Animals Attack
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Cinematical Seven: When Talking Animals Attack
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A Mule Wiser Than the General
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Donald O'Connor | ... | Peter Stirling |
 | Patricia Medina | ... | Maureen Gelder |
| Zasu Pitts | ... | Nurse Valerie Humpert |
| Ray Collins | ... | Col. Hooker |
| John McIntire | ... | Gen. Stevens (as John McIntyre) |
| Eduard Franz | ... | Col. Plepper |
| Howland Chamberlain | ... | Maj. Nadel |
| James Todd | ... | Col. Saunders |
| Robert Warwick | ... | Col. Carmichael |
 | Frank Faylen | ... | Sgt. Chillingbacker |
 | Tony Curtis | ... | Capt. Jones (as Anthony Curtis) |
| Mikel Conrad | ... | Maj. Garber |
| Loren Tindall | ... | Maj. Richards |
| Charles Meredith | ... | Banker Munroe |
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Francis the Talking Mule
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Donald O'Connor's first of six “Francis” movies.
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Francis the Talking Mule:
I hope to kiss a duck I can talk!
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Dead Talk Back (#7.3)" (1994)
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A young soldier Peter Stirling was saved from the Bermese jungles in war time by a talking mule, but nobody believed him until the intelligence information from the mule saved the whole base from Japanese bombers. The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations where the mule is the only one that appears sane. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
Perfect family film, even amusing to the adults. If people all have enough sense as this talking mule does, the world will be a much better place than its present condition.