Dreamboat (1952)
Dreamboat (1952)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6100 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Comedy
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6100 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:23:00 | USA | Comedy
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans.
Director: Claude Binyon
Cast: Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter, Elsa Lanchester, Fred Clark, Paul Harvey, Ray Collins, Helene Stanley, Richard Garrick, Jay Adler, Richard Allan, Howard Banks, George Barrows, Laura K. Brooks, Ralph Brooks, Helen Brown, Marietta Canty, Steve Carruthers, Harry Carter, Jack Chefe, Harry Cheshire, Leo Cleary, Jean Corbett, Tony De Mario, Robert Easton, Bess Flowers, Everett Glass, Fred Graham, Helene Hatch
Dreamboat (1952)
Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university. Widowed and with a pretty daughter (Anne Francis), Sayre has given no clue to his previous life before becoming a teacher. But thanks to television, everyone discovers that Sayre is actually Bruce Blair, a former silent screen star known as "America's Dreamboat." Sayre's onetime leading lady (Ginger Rogers) has made a comeback hosting screenings of her old films on TV, and the result is acute embarrassment for both the professor and his college. Sayre takes the case all the way to court, where he wangles a compromise agreement: he will permit his films to be televised as long as they're not "doctored" to accommodate commercial endorsements (this was based on a real-life lawsuit involving cowboy Gene Autry – which Autry lost). The ensuing publicity costs Sayre his college job, but the renewal of interest in his old films results in a new movie contract. Although silent movies and singing commercials are easy satirical targets, Dreamboat still delivers the laughs, and it's fun to see Clifton Webb camping it up as a "Doug Fairbanks" type.
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Dreamboat (1952)
Dreamboat (1952)
