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Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
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Apr 26, 2022 · via TMDB
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 Rogers) is insistent on their continued airing, and so a court case looms with both increasingly vitriolic towards each other. Meantime, his somewhat prim daughter hooks up with "Bill" (Jeffrey Hunter) and, delicately, he begins to open her eyes a bit too! Webb is on good form, and Claude Binyon offers us a rather engaging retrospective of the silent film era, with "Bruce Blair" just about everything from a musketeer to Zorro. It is a bit over-scripted, but towards the end there is a lovely scene in the courtroom with a television demonstrating just how "educational" such a piece of kit was in 1950s America and we watch a good dose of sweet vengeance as we are introduced to another Webb staple - "Lynn Belvedere". Very enjoyable, this.
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Clifton Webb
Thornton Sayre
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Marlowe
Anne Francis
Carol Sayre
Jeffrey Hunter
Bill Ainslee
Elsa Lanchester
Mathilda Coffey
Fred Clark
Sam Levitt
Paul Harvey
DW Harrington
Ray Collins
Timothy Stone
Helene Stanley
Mimi
Richard Garrick
Judge Bowles
Jay Adler
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Marietta Canty
Lavinia (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
Waitress (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Crazy Sam (uncredited)
Mary Treen
Wife in Hotel Bar (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Woman Exiting Hotel (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Member of College Board (uncredited)
Helen Brown
Dorothy (uncredited)
Richard Easton
Man in Commercial (uncredited)
Gwen Verdon
Girl in Commercial (uncredited)
Milton Krasner
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Travilla
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Sol C. Siegel
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