Double Dynamite

Double Dynamite Information

Double Dynamite is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten, Mel Shavelson, Mannie Manheim, and Harry Crane.

The film was originally entitled It's Only Money, before RKO owner Howard Hughes changed the title to Double Dynamite as a reference to co-star Jane Russell's famous cleavage.

Filmed prior to From Here to Eternity, the movie involves an innocent bank teller (Sinatra) suspected of embezzling who turns to a sardonic waiter (Groucho Marx) for advice. Although Sinatra has by far the most screen time, he took third billing behind Jane Russell and Groucho Marx. Most of the scenes are devoted to the interactions of Sinatra and Marx, who had just begun televising his radio show You Bet Your Life the year before and was in between his wilder Marx Brothers persona and the more toned-down television Groucho. Both Sinatra and Jane Russell play against type as a shy, timid pair, while Marx portrays a sarcastic waiter who breezily mentors the frightened young couple.

Jane Russell and Groucho Marx each sing a duet with Frank Sinatra written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Marx and Sinatra sing "It's Only Money", and Russell and Sinatra deliver the romantic "Kisses and Tears."

The film was held for several years after production, and released only in 1951. It was not a financial or critical success.

Cast

Jane Russell as Mibs Goodhue
Groucho Marx as Emile J. Keck
Frank Sinatra as Johnny Dalton
Don McGuire as Bob Pulsifer, Jr.
Howard Freeman as R. B. Pulsifer, Sr.
Nestor Paiva as bookie "Hot Horse" Harris
Frank Orth as Mr. Kofer
Harry Hayden as J. L. McKissack
William Edmunds as Mr. Baganucci
Russell Thorson as the IRS tailman

DVD releases

Double Dynamite was released on DVD on May 13, 2008, both individually and as part of a box set of Sinatra movies.

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