THE FULLER BRUSH MAN

Details

• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
• Plot: When Red Skelton was cast in this S. Sylvan Simon-directed comedy he'd already played the lead in MGM films and was nationally known on radio. Here, he plays the hapless door-to-door salesman of the title who becomes a prime suspect when one of his clients is murdered. Now, he and his girl (Janet Blair, My Sister Eileen, Tonight and Every Night) have to outwit the murderer and the cops 'til they can prove he's innocent! If this all sounds familiar, Columbia released a similarly plotted picture just two years later, swapping another famous redhead into the lead—Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl! But this is the original.
• Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jergens, Ross Ford, Trudy Marshall, Nicholas Joy, Donald Curtis, Arthur Space, Abigail Adams, Stanley Andrews, Mary Bayless, Stephen Bennett, Paul E. Burns, Ann Burr, Cliff Clark, Chick Collins, Kernan Cripps, Jay Eaton, Virginia Engels, Verna Felton, Mary Field, Joe Gilbert, Chuck Hamilton, Mary Adams Hayes, George Hoagland, Nan Holliday, Jimmy Hunt, Selmer Jackson, Virgil Johanson, Billy Jones, Charles Jordan, Donald Kerr, Paul Kruger, Frank LaRue, Jimmy Lloyd, James Logan, George Magrill, Vivian Mason, Nita Mathews, Frank Mayo, Alex Melesh, Peggy Miller, Roger Moore, William Newell, Rod O'Connor, Garry Owen, Jack Perrin, Lee Phelps, Allen Ray, Fred F. Sears, David Sharpe, Susan Simon, Ann Staunton, Michael Towne, Harry Tyler, Dorothy Vernon, Emmett Vogan, Dick Wessel, Bud Wolfe, Judith Woodbury, S. Sylvan Simon, Roy Huggins, Frank Tashlin, Devery Freeman, Lester White, Al Clark, Heinz Roemheld
• Director: S. Sylvan Simon
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie