Stork Bites Man

1947 film by Cy Endfield
  • June 21, 1947 (1947-06-21)
Running time
67 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Stork Bites Man is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Cy Endfield.[1] it was the last of five short features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers and former Columbia executive Ralph Cohn.[2]

Plot

Ernie, an apartment manager gets fired and evicted when his boss, who hates kids, learns that Ernie's wife is pregnant. Taking advice from a mysterious, invisible stork, Ernie organizes an apartment workers' strike, which eventually forces his boss to soften up.[3]

Cast

  • Jackie Cooper as Ernest (Ernie) C. Brown
  • Meg Randall as Peg Brown (as Gene Roberts)
  • Emory Parnell as Alan Kimberly
  • Gus Schilling as Hubert Butterfield
  • Sarah Selby as Mrs. Greene
  • Scott Elliott as Jerry
  • Marjorie Beckett as Mabel (as Marjory Beckett)
  • Ralph Peters as Morgan
  • Dave Willock as Lester
  • Stanley Prager as Voice of the Invisible Stork

Critical reception

  • TV Guide called the film an "innocuous comedy".[3]
  • Allmovie called the film "only fitfully funny, 'Stork Bites Man' is brightened by the presence of veteran burlesque comedian Gus Schilling, making a meal of his role as a nursery-supply peddler."[2]

References

  1. ^ Stork Bites Man at TCMDB
  2. ^ a b "Stork Bites Man (1947) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  3. ^ a b "Stork Bites Man Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for Stork Bites Man | TVGuide.com". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.

External links

  • Stork Bites Man at IMDb
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Films directed by Cy Endfield
  • Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946)
  • Stork Bites Man (1947)
  • The Argyle Secrets (1948)
  • Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949)
  • The Underworld Story (1950)
  • The Sound of Fury (1950)
  • Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
  • Colonel March Investigates (1953)
  • The Limping Man (1953)
  • Impulse (1954)
  • The Master Plan (1954)
  • The Secret (1955)
  • Child in the House (1956)
  • Hell Drivers (1957)
  • Sea Fury (1958)
  • Jet Storm (1959)
  • Mysterious Island (1961)
  • Zulu (1964)
  • Hide and Seek (1964)
  • Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
  • De Sade (1969)
  • Universal Soldier (1971)


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