Top billed cast

1. 

   Clifton Webb

   Thornton Sayre

2. 

   Ginger Rogers

   Gloria Marlowe

3. 

   Anne Francis

   Carol Sayre

4. 

   Jeffrey Hunter

   Bill Ainslee

5. 

   Elsa Lanchester

   Mathilda Coffey

6. 

   Fred Clark

   Sam Levitt

7. 

   Paul Harvey

   DW Harrington

8. 

   Ray Collins

   Timothy Stone

9. 

   Helene Stanley

   Mimi

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-26

Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Ronald Colman, garner ridicule and upset both his daughter "Carol" (Anne Francis) and his college principle - "Dr. Coffey" (the enthusiastically smitten Elsa Lanchester) so he sets off to New York to have these things banned. Upon arrival, he discovers that his erstwhile co-star "Gloria Marlowe" (Ginger...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• court case
• college
• courtroom
• silent film star
• college professor
• professional reputation