The Barefoot Mailman

The Barefoot Mailman (1951)

Meet Sylvanus! Con man... Gun man... Ladies man!

Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he decides to con the locals, some of whom are not as honest as he....

Date of release
1951-12-03
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Adventure, Comedy
Director
Earl McEvoy

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Florida

The Barefoot Mailman is a 1951 American Super Cinecolor historical comedy adventure film produced by Robert Cohn, directed by Earl McEvoy, distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Robert Cummings, Terry Moore and Jerome Courtland. It is based on the 1943 novel The Barefoot Mailman by Theodore Pratt. Filmed on location in Florida where the events take place, The Barefoot Mailman features many elements of the Western film genre.

Production

The film is based on a 1943 novel written by Theodore Pratt that The New York Times called "salty and colorful." Pratt's idea for the story came when he saw a mural in a post office in West Palm Beach depicting barefoot mailmen in the early 1900s delivering mail between Miami and Palm Beach, a process that took three days.

In April 1950, Columbia revealed that Alfred Lewis Levitt was writing a screenplay based on the book for the studio. In September, the studio announced that most of the film would be shot in Florida starting on October 3. Cummings was cast in November 1950.

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