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01/12/1956 Drama 1h 32m
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Everybody loved the Great Man except those who hated his guts!

Overview

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

  1. José Ferrer

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. José Ferrer

    Joe Harris

  2. Dean Jagger

    Philip Carleton

  3. Keenan Wynn

    Sid Moore

  4. Julie London

    Carol Larson

  5. Joanne Gilbert

    Ginny

  6. Ed Wynn

    Paul Beaseley

  7. Jim Backus

    Nick Cellantano

  8. Russ Morgan

    Eddie Brand

  9. Edward Platt

    Dr. O'Conner

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-07
When national treasure "Fuller" dies, it falls to his erstwhile radio colleague "Joe"(José Ferrer) to put together the traditionally adulatory obituary programme, and so he routinely sets about gathering information and comments from the man's contemporaries. Quite quickly, though, he begins to discover that maybe this man wasn't as pure as the driven snow after all. Indeed, though people don't wish to speak ill of the dead to a microphone, there are soon no shortage of detractors assessing his character and posing quite a quandary for "Joe". Meantime, there's some internal politicking going ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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