The Fuller Brush Man

The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

"OH, MY ACHING FEET!" OH, YOUR ACHING SIDES!

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

Date of release
1948-06-01
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director
S. Sylvan Simon

Casting

Interesting facts

The Fuller Brush Man is a 1948 American comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Red Skelton as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company who becomes a murder suspect. Written by Devery Freeman and Frank Tashlin, it is based upon the 1946 story Now You See It by Roy Huggins that was published in The Saturday Evening Post.

Production

The project had been in development for four years. Producer Simon got permission from the Fuller Brush company and wrote the story with Skelton in mind but was unable to secure studio interest until the success of Miracle on 34th Street (1947) showed the benefits of commercial tie-ins for feature films. He set the project up at Columbia conditional upon MGM agreeing to loan him out.

Producer Edward Small was owed a favour by MGM as he agreed not to make a film called D'Artagnan to clash with their production of The Three Musketeers (1948). Small and Simon then purchased a story in the Saturday Evening Post by Roy Huggins.

The Fuller Brush Company gave their final approval provided it was clear in the final movie that the character Skelton played was an independent dealer and not an employee of the company.

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