The Male Animal (1942)

Synopsis: This campus comedy has an unusually serious theme underscoring its antic fun. Professor Tommy Turner raises hell in his university when he announces he will read a letter from a death-row... This campus comedy has an unusually serious theme underscoring its antic fun. Professor Tommy Turner raises hell in his university when he announces he will read a letter from a death-row radical Bartolomeo Vanzetti. A story about Turner's provocative upcoming lecture appears in the college newspaper, and soon the academic's job is on the line. Complicating things further, Joe Ferguson, a gridiron hero -- and an old pal of Turner's wife -- comes to town for the big college football game. This news causes Turner to drown his sorrows in liquor... and to make a stand to keep his position and his wife. [More]

Starring: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson

Starring: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Anderson, Hattie McDaniel, Don DeFore

Director: Elliott Nugent

Director: Elliott Nugent
Producer: Wolfgang Reinhardt
Screenwriter: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
Story: James Thurber
Composer: Heinz Roemheld
Story: Elliott Nugent

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