Double Dynamite
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Double Dynamite is a 1951 movie comedy featuring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra.
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[edit] The film
Filmed while Sinatra's career was at a low prior to From Here to Eternity, the movie involves an innocent bank teller (Sinatra) suspected of embezzling who turns to a sardonic waiter (Groucho Marx) for advice. Although Sinatra has the most screen time, he took third billing behind Jane Russell and Groucho Marx. Most of the scenes are devoted to the interactions of Sinatra and Marx, who had just begun televising his radio show You Bet Your Life the year before and was in between his earlier Marx Brothers persona and the more mature television Groucho. Both Sinatra and Jane Russell play against type as a shy, timid pair, while Marx portrays a sarcastic waiter who breezily mentors the frightened young couple.
[edit] The songs
Jane Russell and Groucho Marx each sing a duet with Frank Sinatra written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Marx and Sinatra sing "It's Only Money", and Russell and Sinatra deliver the romantic "Kisses and Tears."
[edit] Cast and crew
- Written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane
- Directed by Irving Cummings
[edit] Cast
- Jane Russell as Mibs Goodhue
- Groucho Marx as Emile J. Keck
- Frank Sinatra as Johnny Dalton
- Don McGuire as Bob Pulsifer, Jr.
- Howard Freeman as R.B. Pulsifer, Sr.
- Nestor Paiva as bookie "Hot Horse" Harris
- Frank Orth as Mr. Kofer
- Harry Hayden as J.L. McKissack
- William Edmunds as Mr. Baganucci
- Russell Thorson as the IRS tailman
