Dreamboat

“Fresh, wonderful and LOADED with Laughter!”

5.9(17)19521h 23m

Comedy

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Director

Claude Binyon

Cast

Clifton Webb

Thornton Sayre

Ginger Rogers

Gloria Marlowe

Anne Francis

Carol Sayre

Jeffrey Hunter

Bill Ainslee

Elsa Lanchester

Mathilda Coffey

Fred Clark

Sam Levitt

Paul Harvey

DW Harrington

Ray Collins

Timothy Stone

Helene Stanley

Mimi

Richard Garrick

Judge Bowles

Jay Adler

Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Marietta Canty

Lavinia (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Ronald Colman, garner ridicule and upset both his daughter "Carol" (Anne Francis) and his college princi...