Francis Covers the Big Town
Jun 10 1953
•1h 26m
•Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Romance
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
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Donald O'Connor
Peter Stirling
Yvette Duguay
Maria Scola
Gene Lockhart
Tom Henderson
Nancy Guild
Alberta Ames
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