Dreamboat

1952

1h 23m

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5.7/10

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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.

Directors

Claude Binyon

Writers

Claude Binyon(screenplay by)

John D. Weaver(story by)

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Clifton Webb

Ginger Rogers

Anne Francis

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Thornton Sayre

Gloria Marlowe

Carol Sayre

Bill Ainslee

Mathilda Coffey

Sam Levitt

DW Harrington

Timothy Stone

Mimi

Judge Bowles

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)

Directors

Claude Binyon

Writers

Claude Binyon(screenplay by)

John D. Weaver(story by)

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7/10

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.

Geronimo196726 Apr, 2022