Yankee Fakir (1947)

Name: Yankee Fakir
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Released: 1947-04-01
Duration: 71 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Douglas Fowley, Joan Woodbury, Clem Bevans, Frank Reicher, Ransom M. Sherman

Yankee Fakir (1947), directed by W. Lee Wilder, starring Douglas Fowley and Joan Woodbury.

04/01/1947 BR Action, Adventure and Western 1h 11m

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Synopsis

A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.

Robert PittackCinematography
W. Lee WilderDirector, Producer
Joseph B. CaplinEditing
Alexander LaszloOriginal music

About the film

Yankee Fakir is a 1947 American comedy mystery film directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder and written by Richard S. Conway from a story by Mindret Lord. The film stars Douglas Fowley, Joan Woodbury, Clem Bevans, Ransom M. Sherman, Frank Reicher and Marc Lawrence. The film was released on April 1, 1947, by Republic Pictures.

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Plot

Two peddlers, Mergatroyd Barthlomew "Yankee" Davis and Professor Newton, discover a smuggling operation in the fictional town of Mystic, Arizona. Border patrol officer Mason investigates, while his daughter Mary Mason runs a boarding house.

Cast

Douglas Fowley as Murgatroyd Bartholomew "Yankee" Davis

Joan Woodbury as Mary Mason

Clem Bevans as Shaggy Hartley posing as Professor Davis

Ransom M. Sherman as Professor Newton

Frank Reicher as Banker H.W. Randall

Marc Lawrence as Duke

Walter Soderling as sheriff

Eula Guy as Mrs. Irmatrude Tetley

Forrest Taylor as border guard Mason

Elinor Appleton as Jenny

Peter Michael as border guard Walker

Elspeth Dudgeon as scrubwoman

Ernie Adams as Charlie

Tom Bernard as Tommy Mason

Reception

Variety wrote: "Modest budgeted comedy mystery. ... General production values are par with the mediocre scripting with nothing special to commend in either its thesping, direction or camera work. ... Fowley is adequate in the central role and gets okay comedy support from Ransom Sherman, his assistant in the pitchman routines. Clem Bevans, as a vagrant posing as a millionaire, also registers with a competent performance while Joan Woodbury, as the heart interest, is a nice looker, but not given much to do. Rest of the cast in stock parts do okay. Incidental song, 'Caught Like a Rat in a Trap,' is straight corn."

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "There are a few amusing situations, but on the whole the film meanders slowly and rather pointlessly along. Direction fails to give any of the much-needed sparkle, and the acting cannot rise above the mediocre script."

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External links

Yankee Fakir at IMDb

Text from Yankee Fakir on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Fakir

Trivia

It premiered on April 1, 1947, a Tuesday.
It runs 1h11 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 11 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.