Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Robert Montgomery, James Gleason, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes; TIME...
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Robert Montgomery, James Gleason, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes; TIME...
That would have been duck soup for No. 7013 if the fighter's manager (James Gleason) had not taken his boy's body from the plane wreckage and had it cremated. Only answer to that, inasmuch as he refuses to go through the trouble of being born over again, is to find him another body...
...fighter, whom the world accepts as the millionaire, convinces his manager, who so wrongly had him cremated, that he is really his boy come back in another man's body to win the heavyweight championship is wondrously funny. So is Gleason's awkward attempt to converse with Mr. Jordan, whom he can neither see nor hear. How the fighter finally wins his girl, despite the handicap of having to leave the millionaire's body and take another one before becoming champion, is truly moving...
...fashioning one of the most singular and comic comedies ever to come out of Hollywood. It molds farce and fantasy into a story that is not only witty but wise. A directorial triumph for Alexander Hall, it is a springboard for two practically perfect performances by Actors Montgomery and Gleason...