The Male Animal

Name: The Male Animal
Genre: Comedy
Released: TODO_MISSING

1942, Comedy, 1h 41m

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Movie Info

On the weekend of the big football game at a large Midwestern university, English professor Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) unexpectedly gets embroiled in a free-speech controversy. When a trustee (Eugene Pallette) learns that Tommy intends to read a letter by convicted anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti in class, he threatens the professor's job. Meanwhile, Tommy's unhappy wife (Olivia de Havilland) is wooed by her visiting college boyfriend, ex-football star Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson).

Genre:

Comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Elliott Nugent
Producer:

Hal B. Wallis
Writer:

Stephen Morehouse Avery, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Elliott Nugent, James Thurber
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 4, 1942 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

May 8, 2009
Runtime:

1h 41m
Distributor:

Warner Bros.
Sound Mix:

Mono