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Joe E. Brown gives a stunning performance as a professional clown who finds trouble away from the security of greasepaint and the circus when he serves as a juror on a murder trial. Convinced that the man accused of committing the crime is innocent, he attempts to get his doubting fellow jurors to feel the same way by relating a tragic tale from his past. Underrated melodrama co-stars Helen Foster, Richard Tucker, William B. Davidson. 74 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
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Joe E. Brown again stars in another Ring Lardner gem about country bumpkin ballplayer Elmer Kane (based on Big Ed Walsh) that gets mixed up with the underworld. Not as funny as Alibi Ike but still worth viewing. Based on the play Hurry Kane. Filmed in L.A.'s Wrigley Field.
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Synopsis: While appearing in the stage production Harvey, comedian Joe E. Brown was persuaded by director Harold Schuster to accept the atypically serious starring role in The Tender Years. Though hardly his first dramatic film appearance, it was undoubtedly Brown's best. The star is cast as kindlyRead More
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[I]n "Boothill Brigade," Johnny Mack Brown stars as a frontier do-gooder who squares off against an evil land-grabber who is trying to take property from hard-working homesteaders. With Claire Rochelle, Dick Curtis, Horace Murphy. Then, Texas Ranger Brown encounters a maniacal killer while investigating a string of murders in a "Lawless Land." Louise Stanley, Ted Adams, Ed Cassidy co-star. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
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High-pressure tractor salesman Joe E. Brown pulls out all the stops to land his most difficult sale yet, to timberman Guy Kibbee, in the ground-shaking comedy "Earthworm Tractors" (1936). With June Travis, Dick Foran. Next, after ingesting a professor's experimental serum, a college student and 98-pound weakling (Brown) gains superhuman strength and becomes the campus's star athlete, in "The Gladiator" (1938), loosely based on Philip Wylie's sci-fi novel. Travis, Lucien Littlefield and wrestler Man Mountain Dean ... star. When his vaudeville troupe's South American tour flops and leaves them stranded, a guilt-stricken Brown engages in a series of comical attempts to kill himself so the performers can return home on his life insurance money, in "Flirting with Fate" (1938). With Beverly Roberts.
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Synopsis: Joe E. Brown plays a small town fireman who is ... the town's star ballplayer--and an itinerant inventor on the side. Brown is offered a pitching contract with the St. Louis Cardinals; he accepts, reasoning that the money he'll earn will help finance his invention. While in spring training, BrownRead More
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