Francis(Movie, 1950)

Name: Francis
Genre: Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, War
Released: 1950
Duration: T01:31:00
Rating: 2.8

1h 31min | Genres: Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, War

Rating: 2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Francis is a 1950 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International that launched the Francis the Talking Mule film series. Francis is produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Arthur Lubin, and stars Donald O'Connor and Patricia Medina. The distinctive voice of Francis is a voice-over by actor Chill Wills. Six Francis sequels from Universal-International followed this first effort. During World War II, a junior American Army officer gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him. ()

Part of the Francis the Talking Mule Collection

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About Francis

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Myanmar

Made by: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 10 languages: Catalan (CA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 02/08/1950

Cast: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, ZaSu Pitts, Ray Collins, John McIntire, Frank Faylen, Tony Curtis, Charles Meredith, Al Ferguson, Sam Harris, Roger Moore, Eduard Franz, Mikel Conrad, Chill Wills, Robert Warwick, Colin Kenny, Howland Chamberlain, Fred Aldrich

Director: Arthur Lubin

Screenwriter: David Stern

Director of Photography: Irving Glassberg

Composer: Frank Skinner

Production Designer: Bernard Herzbrun

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Francis (Ein Esel - Herr General)"

"Francis The Talking Mule"

Keywords: horse, based on novel or book, mule, animals family, psychotronic film, sergeant

Color: Black & White (B/W)