Fresh
Like the other small musicals Douglas Sirk directed at Universal in the early 50s, this is better than it was supposed to have been at the time.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
Director and cast
- Douglas Sirk Director
- Dan Dailey as Doc Tilbee
- Diana Lynn as Zerelda Wing
- Scatman Crothers as Enoch Jones
- Chet Allen as Tad Bayliss
- Hugh O'Brian as Chilton Corr
- Carole Mathews as Clara Brink
- Rhys Williams as Pete McCoy
- Thomas E. Jackson as Billy Gray
- Russell Simpson as Sheriff Evans
- George Chandler Cast
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Sirk's customary concern with hypocrisy and intolerance is, given the genre and overall tone of the piece, surprisingly to the fore in a subplot about corrupt politicians.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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