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For the Elvis Presley album, see Double Dynamite (album).
Double Dynamite 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Irving Cummings Produced by Irwin Allen (uncredited)
Irving Cummings, Jr.Written by Leo Rosten
Mel Shavelson
Mannie Manheim
Harry CraneStarring Jane Russell
Groucho Marx
Frank SinatraCinematography Ronald De Grasse Editing by Harry Marker Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Release date(s) December 25, 1951 Running time 80 minutes Country United States Language English Double Dynamite is a 1951 musical comedy film 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."
Contents
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
DVD releases
Double Dynamite was released on DVD on May 13, 2008, both individually and as part of a box set of Sinatra movies.[1]
References
External links
- Double Dynamite at the Internet Movie Database
- Double Dynamite at AllRovi
- Double Dynamite in the New York Times
Films directed by Irving Cummings 1920s Flesh and Blood (1922) · The Johnstown Flood (1926) · The Port of Missing Girls (1928) · In Old Arizona (1929) · Behind that Curtain (1929)1930s Attorney for the Defense (1932) · Grand Canary (1934) · The White Parade (1934) · Curly Top (1935) · The Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) · Girls' Dormitory (1936) · Vogues of 1938 (1937) · Little Miss Broadway (1938) · Just Around the Corner (1938) · The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)1940s Lillian Russell (1940) · Down Argentine Way (1940) · That Night in Rio (1941) · Belle Starr (1941) · Louisiana Purchase (1941) · My Gal Sal (1942) · Springtime in the Rockies (1942) · Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) · The Impatient Years (1944) · The Dolly Sisters (1945)1950s Double Dynamite (1951)Categories:- 1951 films
- 1950s musical films
- 1950s romantic comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American romantic musical films
- English-language films
- RKO Pictures films
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