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The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

The Fuller Brush Man poster
Directed by
S. Sylvan Simon
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
18
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A hapless door-to-door brush salesman gets tangled up in a murder case. He must clear his name while dealing with the police and a series of accidents.

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What happens

The Fuller Brush Man is a 1948 American comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Red Skelton as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush Company who becomes a murder suspect. Written by Devery Freeman and Frank Tashlin, it is based upon the 1946 story Now You See It by Roy Huggins that was published in The Saturday Evening Post. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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