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Double Dynamite is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Irving Cummings released in USA on 25 december 1951 with Jane Russell

Double Dynamite (1951)

Double Dynamite
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Released in USA 25 december 1951
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Adventure,    Musical,    Romance
Rating59% 2.95192.95192.95192.95192.9519

Double Dynamite is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane.

The film was originally entitled It's Only Money, before RKO owner Howard Hughes changed the title to Double Dynamite as a reference to co-star Jane Russell's famous cleavage.

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."

Filmed in 1948, it was held for several years after production, and released only in 1951. It was not a financial or critical success.

Synopsis

Johnny Dalton, un caissier de banque pour avoir voulu aider un bookmaker à se sortir d'une situation inextricable se trouve à son tour dans une facheuse situation. Seul son meilleur ami Emile pourra le sortir de cette impasse.

Actors

Jane Russell

(Mildred 'Mibs' Goodhue)Groucho Marx

(Emile J. Keck)Frank Sinatra

(Johnny Dalton)Don McGuire

(R.B. 'Bob' Pulsifer Jr.)Howard Freeman

(R.B. Pulsifer Sr.)
And :
William Edmunds
Bill Erwin
Nestor Paiva
Frank Orth
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