The Good Humor Man (1950 film)

Name	The Good Humor Man
Image
Caption	Theatrical release poster
Director	Lloyd Bacon
Producer	S. Sylvan Simon
Writer	Frank Tashlin
Music	Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography	Lester White
Editing	Jerome Thoms
Studio	Columbia Pictures
Distributor	Columbia Pictures
Released	1950-6-8-Los Angeles-1950-7-13-New York-
Runtime	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Good Humor delivery driver Biff Jones is in trouble with the law after being falsely connected with a $300,000 robbery of the cash safe at work and an apparent murder. He is in love with neighborhood gal Margie Bellew, who lives with her younger brother Johnny. Biff and Margie, with the help of Johnny and all of the neighborhood kids, absolve Biff by fighting and capturing the gangsters who committed the crimes.

Cast

• Jack Carson as Biff Jones
• Lola Albright as Margie Bellew
• Jean Wallace as Bonnie Conroy
• George Reeves as Stuart Nagle
• Peter Miles as Johnny Bellew
• Frank Ferguson as Inspector Quint
• David Sharpe as Slick
• Chick Collins as Fats
• Eddie Parker as John
• Pat Flaherty as Officer Rhodes
• Richard Egan as Officer Daley
• Arthur Space as Steven
• Victoria Horne as Bride
• Jack Overman as Shirtless Stoker

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "Perhaps, in a rush of generosity we might dignify this little film by calling it simply an endeavor at slapstick comedy. That would be putting it kindly. for it does follow more or less the lines of a sadistic comic adventure laid down by Mack Sennett years ago. ... But slapstick implies a bright tradition. Let's not call it anything."

Critic Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times compared Jack Carson's performance to that of Red Skelton in The Fuller Brush Man: "Skelton, it seems to me, has the edge on Carson when it comes to this kind of anything-goes comedy. While Red may be thick-skinned, he constantly demonstrates that he can take it and, with the unquenchable instinct of the do-gooder, bobs up smiling for more. Carson, on the other hand, is thick-skinned, period. ... In his ponderous, wise-cracking way, he gets around."

References

• Scheuer, Philip K., 1950-06-09, Jack Carson Holds Own as 'Good Humor Man', Los Angeles Times
• Crowther, Bosley, 1950-07-14, The Screen: Slapstick Comedy, The New York Times

External links

• Captain Marvel and the Good Humor Man tie-in comic book