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Man Alive (1945 film)
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Wikipedia article
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| name = Man Alive
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| director = Ray Enright
| producer = Robert Fellows
| writer = Edwin Blum
| story = John Tucker Battle
Jerome Cady
| starring = Pat O'Brien
Adolphe Menjou
Ellen Drew
Rudy Valle
| music = Leigh Harline
| cinematography = Frank Redman
| editing = Marvin Coil
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released =
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $738,000Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story.' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p206
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'Man Alive' is a 1945 romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Ellen Drew and Rudy Valle.
Plot
Successful businessman Michael O'Flaherty "Speed" McBride (Pat O'Brien) is knocked out when a tramp he picked up drives his car into a river. Speed is rescued by a passing showboat. Meanwhile, the dead tramp is mistaken for Speed. Speed is eager to clear up the misidentification, but Kismet (Adolphe Menjou), a member of the crew, talks him into postponing that revelation. Speed has revealed that he is having marital problems with his wife Connie (Ellen Drew). Kismet convinces him to pretend to be a ghost to persuade Connie to get rid of a romantic rival, Gordon Tolliver (Rudy Valle), Connie's old admirer. Comic hijinks ensue, but in the end, Connie realizes she still loves Speed.
Cast
* Pat O'Brien as Michael O'Flaherty "Speed" McBride
* Adolphe Menjou as Kismet
* Ellen Drew as Connie McBride
* Rudy Valle as Gordon Tolliver
* Fortunio Bonanova as Prof. Zorado
* Joseph Crehan as Dr. James P. Whitney
* Jonathan Hale as Osborne
* Minna Gombell as Aunt Sophie
* Jason Robards, Sr. as Henry Fletcher (as Jason Robards)
* Jack Norton as Willie the Wino
* Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer as Ignatius
References
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