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Don Juan Quilligan

  • 19451945
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 15m
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5.9/10
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William Bendix and Joan Blondell in Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Comedy
In Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. Q... Read allIn Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. Quilligan soon proposes, and Margie accepts. On a trip to Utica, N.Y., Quilligan defends sh... Read allIn Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. Quilligan soon proposes, and Margie accepts. On a trip to Utica, N.Y., Quilligan defends shy Lucy Blake (Mary Treen) and is smitten by her home cooking. Through misunderstandings an... Read all
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    • Frank Tuttle
    • Arthur Kober(screenplay)
    • Frank Gabrielson(screenplay)
    • Herbert Clyde Lewis(story)
  • Stars
    • William Bendix
    • Joan Blondell
    • Phil Silvers
    • Frank Tuttle
    • Arthur Kober(screenplay)
    • Frank Gabrielson(screenplay)
    • Herbert Clyde Lewis(story)
  • Stars
    • William Bendix
    • Joan Blondell
    • Phil Silvers
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    William Bendix
    William Bendix
    • Patrick Michael 'Don Juan' Quilligan
    Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell
    • Marjorie Mossrock
    Phil Silvers
    Phil Silvers
    • MacDenny
    Anne Revere
    Anne Revere
    • Mrs. Cora Rostigaff
    B.S. Pully
    • Ed Mossrock
    Mary Treen
    Mary Treen
    • Lucy Blake
    Johnny Russell
    Johnny Russell
    • Howie Mossrock
    • (as John Russell)
    Veda Ann Borg
    Veda Ann Borg
    • Beattle LaRue
    Thurston Hall
    Thurston Hall
    • First Judge
    Cara Williams
    Cara Williams
    • Fifth Ave. Florist Salesgirl
    Richard Gaines
    Richard Gaines
    • Defense Attorney
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Mr. Rostigaff
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Customer at Mossrock's
    • (uncredited)
    John Albright
    • Theatre Usher
    • (uncredited)
    Genevieve Bell
    • Dowager
    • (uncredited)
    Charles D. Brown
    • Police Inspector
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Cane
    • Officer Artie Mossrock
    • (uncredited)
    Renee Carson
    • Annie Mossrock
    • (uncredited)
      • Frank Tuttle
      • Arthur Kober(screenplay)
      • Frank Gabrielson(screenplay)
      • Herbert Clyde Lewis(story)
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    • Trivia
      "The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 11, 1946 with William Bendix and Phil Silvers reprising their film roles.
    • Quotes

      Patrick Michael 'Don Juan' Quilligan: Now how can I get mixed up with girls when I'll be in the U.S. Navy?

      'Mac' MacDenny: It's been done, Captain, believe me, it's been done.

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      Music by Leo Friedman

      Lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson

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    1/10
    William Bendix meets Alec Guinness
    In 1953, Alec Guinness starred in an hilarious movie called "The Captain's Paradise". Guinness played the bigamous captain of a ferry that plied back and forth across the Straits of Gibraltar ... bigamous, because Guinness's captain had a wife at each end of his ferry route, with neither wife suspecting the other's existence. In 1958, "The Captain's Paradise" became a flop Broadway musical renamed "Oh! Captain!", starring Tony Randall in the title role. (I have difficulty imagining Tony Randall as a man with two wives.)

    Amazingly, the 1945 movie 'Don Juan Quilligan' did this idea first ... and worst, because this movie is much less funny than the Guinness version. Having read the book and lyrics of "Oh! Captain!", I'm prepared to state that the Broadway musical flop (which I never saw) was probably funnier than this movie too. The title role in 'Don Juan Quilligan' is played by William Bendix, an actor who has frequently dazzled me with his comedy performances. Bendix's set-piece routine with a revolver in 'A Connecticut Yankee' (1949) is one of the funniest scenes ever filmed, full stop. Working opposite Abbott and Costello in 'Who Done It?' (1942), Bendix upstaged Bud and Lou so uproariously that Costello refused ever to work with Bendix again. When I learnt that 'Don Juan Quilligan' starred Bill Bendix, I was all set to laugh myself into conniptions. I'm still waiting. As Chester A. Riley would say: 'Dis movie ain't funny, Peg.'

    Bendix (who was raised in Manhattan but had a fine career as Hollywood's quintessential Brooklynite) plays a Brooklyn seaman who captains a scow that runs between Flatbush and Utica. As in "The Captain's Paradise", he has a wife in each of his two ports. And the difference between the two wives in that film is EXACTLY the same as the difference between the two wives in THIS film: Quilligan has one wife who's a cosy domestic homemaker (Mary Treen), and one wife who's a hot mama (Joan Blondell). Well, there is ONE difference: the wives in "The Captain's Paradise" were a blonde and a brunette. In this movie, they're both blondes.

    Part of the problem with "Quilligan" is that Blondell's character is supposed to be sexy and vivacious. I've always found Blondell cheap and vulgar in all her roles, and that goes double here. Mary Treen was an underrated actress (she was quietly splendid in her small role as James Stewart's cousin and workmate in 'It's a Wonderful Life'), and I'm annoyed that the script and direction of 'Quilligan' have Treen's character playing very much a second fiddle to Blondell's. I wanted Bendix to shove Blondell over the starboard fo'c'sle and sail off into the sunset with Mary Treen. Instead, we get a stupid plot in which bigamous Bendix accidentally enlists in the Army AND the Navy, and then he gets arrested for murder. No, wait, this is Brooklyn: he gets arrested fah moider.

    I usually enjoy comedy based on Brooklyn stereotypes, but this movie relies heavily on 'deeze-dem-doze' accents and references to Brooklyn geography, with very little actual humour. Some genuine humour is supplied by Phil Silvers as Bendix's first mate aboard the scow. (With a plotline like this, I hesitate to use a term like 'first mate'.) But Silvers's laughs are few and far between, and that's the fault of the script and the direction. This movie is comatosely directed by Frank Tuttle, who made a couple of good movies and one brilliant movie ('Puritan Passions') but who for most of his career was a lacklustre hack.

    Gravel-voiced B.S. Pulley is prominently featured in this movie. Pulley (in real life a borderline criminal and all-round Broadway character) was one of those "naturals" who was very funny when he simply played himself and didn't make any attempts to "act". Unfortunately, Pulley had delusions of being a thespian, and directors often had to struggle to prevent him from "performing" his roles instead of simply DOING them. Tuttle doesn't make that effort, so Pulley is awful here. Almost as bad is Byron Foulger, whom I've found painfully unfunny in every film role I've ever seen him in. Except for Silvers and Treen, almost everyone in this film is awful, including the usually reliable Bendix. What a disappointment. I rate this garbage scow 1 point out of 10. I'll moider da bum!
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    • F Gwynplaine MacIntyre
    • May 7, 2003

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      • June 1, 1945 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • 1 hour 15 minutes
      • Black and White

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