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- 101 Minutes
- Warner Bros.
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated:
- Format: 1.37:1
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- Directed by Elliott Nugent
- Written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Stephen Morehouse Avery
- Starring Hattie McDaniel, Henry Fonda, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Olivia De Havilland
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Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star (Jack Carson) once perhaps still fancied by Turner's wife (Olivia de Havilland), and the academic tussle that threatens the professor's tenure. This Hollywood version of the Broadway smash co-written by James Thurber stays close to its source the film's director is the stage hit's other writer and star Elliott Nugent.
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- Profile of director Elliot Nugent
- Article on the film