Double Dynamite
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| Double Dynamite | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Irving Cummings |
| Produced by | Irwin Allen (uncredited) Irving Cummings, Jr. |
| Written by | Leo Rosten Mel Shavelson Mannie Manheim Harry Crane |
| Starring | Jane Russell Groucho Marx Frank Sinatra |
| Cinematography | Ronald De Grasse |
| Editing by | Harry Marker |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1951 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Double Dynamite is a 1951 movie musical comedy featuring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane, and directed by Irving Cummings.
Filmed prior to From Here to Eternity, the movie involves an innocent bank teller (Sinatra) suspected of embezzling who turns to a sardonic waiter (Groucho Marx) for advice. Although Sinatra has by far the most screen time, he took third billing behind Jane Russell and Groucho Marx. Most of the scenes are devoted to the interactions of Sinatra and Marx, who had just begun televising his radio show You Bet Your Life the year before and was in between his wilder Marx Brothers persona and the more toned-down television Groucho. Both Sinatra and Jane Russell play against type as a shy, timid pair, while Marx portrays a sarcastic waiter who breezily mentors the frightened young couple.
Jane Russell and Groucho Marx each sing a duet with Frank Sinatra written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Marx and Sinatra sing "It's Only Money", and Russell and Sinatra deliver the romantic "Kisses and Tears."
[edit] Cast
- Jane Russell as Mibs Goodhue
- Groucho Marx as Emile J. Keck
- Frank Sinatra as Johnny Dalton
- Don McGuire as Bob Pulsifer, Jr.
- Howard Freeman as R. B. Pulsifer, Sr.
- Nestor Paiva as bookie "Hot Horse" Harris
- Frank Orth as Mr. Kofer
- Harry Hayden as J. L. McKissack
- William Edmunds as Mr. Baganucci
- Russell Thorson as the IRS tailman
[edit] DVD releases
Double Dynamite is scheduled to be released on DVD on May 13, 2008, both individually and as part of a box set of Sinatra movies. [1]
