Dreamboat

1952 PG-13 1h 23m

6.1 / 10 18

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6.1/10

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Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Director Claude Binyon

Writers

Claude Binyon John D. Weaver

Stars

Clifton Webb Ginger Rogers Anne Francis

Comedy

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Geronimo1967 26 Apr 2022

7/10

Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Ronald Colman, garner ridicule and upset both his daughter "Carol" (Anne Francis) and his college princi...