GREAT RUPERT, THE(AKA: A CHRISTMAS WISH)(1950)
Another comedy that's more a light drama!
Rupert is a squirel! And he dances! He belongs
to an old man who winds up having to let him run
wild because he has no where to live! Enter Jimmy
and his family, who wind up "renting" the place
where the old man used to live! Meanwhile, the people
who own the place and live next door come into a
lot of money and the man, not trusting banks, hides
it in his house! Enter the squirel, who drops the
money down to the wife, who thinks it's money from
heaven! I'm sure you can guess the rest of the story
from there!
Jimmy does some singing in this! C+
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
When I was just a young boy, my uncle took my
cousins, my brother and I to see The Great Rupert
at an outdoor drive-in. I was nine years old,
and Rupert became one of my greatest childhood
memories. I thought about the movie during the
past 40-50 years...when my daughter was born,
I wished she could have seen it...and when my
grandson was born, I wished the same for him.
My daughter has been on the internet for years,
my wife and I only the past year or so. Recently
I decided to see if I could find out if there was
a video of The Great Rupert...and would you believe
it - there was! I ordered it right away.
My wife and I, my daughter and my grandson watched
it together, and although the "special effects" are
certainly not "Star Wars"...the story is still
heart warming. I recommend the movie for kids
of all ages. - afotia
Jimmy Durante ... Mr. Louie Amendola
Terry Moore ... Rosalinda Amendola
Tom Drake ... Peter 'Pete' Dingle
Frank Orth ... Mr. Frank Dingle
Sara Haden ... Mrs. Katie Dingle
Queenie Smith ... Mrs. Amendola
Chick Chandler ... Phil Davis
Jimmy Conlin ... Joe Mahoney
Rupert Rupert ... Rupert the Squirrel
Hugh Sanders ... Mulligan
Don Beddoe ... Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe)
Candy Candido ... Molineri - Florist
Clancy Cooper ... Police Lt. Saunders
Harold Goodwin ... Callahan - FBI Man
Frank Cady ... Mr. Taney - Tax Investigator
Lester Dorr ... Eddie - the Bartender (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp ... Passerby in Park (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe ... Dave - the Mailman (uncredited)
Torben Meyer ... Mr. Petrushka - the Baker (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery ... Fireman (uncredited)
Irving Pichel ... Puzzled Pedestrian (uncredited)
Harry Strang ... Fire Chief (uncredited)
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