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Running Time
1 hour, 31 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists, Walter Wanger
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• Stand-In
• Mr. Dodd geht nach Hollywood (1937)
• Mr. Dodd saniert (1937)
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Genre: Comedy, Hollywood, Satire, Spoof, Investigation
Tagline: Hail! The conquering hero comes!
Plot: Straight-arrow, bespectacled New York banker Atterbury Dodd is sent to Hollywood to rescue movie studio Colossal Films from financial ruin. The problem is, Dodd knows nothing about the film business! He does, however, gets a first-hand look at Hollywood's wackiness, as he shares accommodations with a trained seal, an obsessive actor... and a penguin. Meanwhile, he learns a lot about showbiz thanks to his encounters with the dysfunctional personalities he meets at Colossal -- who exemplify why the studio is in such trouble. Can this neophyte to the world of entertainment pull off the impossible and save the crumbling studio?
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Tay Garnett
The Postman Always Rings Twice, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Bataan |
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Gone with the Wind, The Petrified Forest, Pygmalion | Alan Mowbray
The Man Who Knew Too Much, The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days | | | Jack Carson
Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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