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Man Alive

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Original title

Man Alive

Year

1945

Running time

70 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ray Enright

Screenwriter

Edwin Blum. Plot: John Tucker Battle, Jerome Cady

Cast

Music

Leigh Harline

Cinematography

Frank Redman (B&W)

Producer

RKO Radio Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

A quite funny and charming minor comedy, with O'Brien as a neglectful husband who, reported drowned in a car accident while drunk, takes to posing as a ghost to prevent his wife from marrying an old flame. One particularly good sequence has O'Brien reviving after being fished out of the river, unaware that he is aboard a showboat, to be confronted by a 'Green Pastures'-style representation of heaven; convinced he is dead and distractedly going to the door, he this time finds himself in hell (the stokehold, given an added touch of conviction by the fortuitous presence of Menjou, sporting his Mephistopheles costume from the show). Invention flags latterly, though, as the lies and deceptions he gets up to instead of owning up (at Menjou's meddlesome suggestion) lead to rather tiresome complications.

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Man Alive

1945

Ray Enright