Directed by:
Lloyd BaconCinematography:
Lester WhiteComposer:
Heinz RoemheldCast:
Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace, George Reeves, Victoria Horne, Richard Egan, Chester Conklin, Frank Ferguson, Pat Flaherty, Jeffrey Sayre (more)Plots(1)
In the tradition of Red Skelton's The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man comes The Good Humor Man, with Jack Carson subbing for Skelton this time out. Carson plays Biff Jones, who when not peddling Good Humor ice cream carries on a romance with perky Margie Bellew (Lola Albright). Through a series of incredible circumstances, poor Biff is set up for a fall guy by a gang of holdup men. Ingredients essential to the action is a juvenile "Captain Marvel Fan Club," a dead woman who isn't dead, an above-suspicion business executive who turns out to be a criminal mastermind, and a room full of very versatile musical instruments. If the sight gags have a slightly cartoonish feel to them, it's because they were cooked up by Frank Tashlin, a graduate of the Warner Bros. animation factory. The best is reserved for the end, wherein hero, heroine, villain, henchmen, cops and kids all converge in a high-school auditorium for an uninhibited orgy of slapstick. Comic book fans will get a kick out of seeing George "Superman" Reeves come to grief at the hands of a bunch of "Captain Marvel" devotees! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jack Carson
Canada
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Lola Albright
USA
Best movies:
Easter Parade (1948)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Champion (1949)
Jean Wallace
USA
Best movies:
The Big Combo (1955)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
No Blade of Grass (1970)
George Reeves
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Victoria Horne
USA
Best movies:
To Each His Own (1946)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Harvey (1950)
Richard Egan
USA
Best movies:
Violent Saturday (1955)
The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
The Hunters (1958)
Chester Conklin
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Frank Ferguson
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Paul E. Burns
USA
Best movies:
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Storm Warning (1951)
Spartacus (1960)
Robert B. Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Killing (1956)
Peter Miles
Japan
Chet Brandenburg
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
White Heat (1949)
Ferris Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Harry Tyler
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)
Arthur Space
USA
Best movies:
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Random Harvest (1942)
George Magrill
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Love Crazy (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Edward Keane
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)