Francis Covers the Big Town

Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

It's Brand NEW and it's all Hilarious!

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Date of release
1953-06-10
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Arthur Lubin
Collection
Francis the Talking Mule Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Francis Covers the Big Town is a 1953 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Leonard Goldstein, directed by Arthur Lubin, that stars Donald O'Connor, Yvette Duguay, and Gene Lockhart. The distinctive voice of Francis is a voice-over by actor Chill Wills.

Production

Production of the film was announced in July 1951 and was to be the third in the Francis series.

Oscar Brodney was assigned to write the script. David Stern reportedly also worked on the script.

Filming started in August 1951 and involved ten days location shooting in New York.

Francis was flown to New York and back on a cargo plane, which cost $700 plus airfares for his trainer and two handlers.

At one stage of production, the film was going to be known as Francis, Racket Buster.

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