Knock on Wood (film)
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61% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy Country United States | 6.9/10 IMDb Initial DVD release September 28, 2010 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Melvin FrankNorman Panama Release date April 14, 1954 (1954-04-14) Cast (Jerry Morgan / Papa Morgan / Clarence), (Dr. Ilse Nordstrom), (Godfrey Langston), (Marty Brown), (Laslo Gromeck) Similar movies Salt , The Hunting Party , Mad Max: Fury Road , Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation , Interstellar , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Tagline The No. 1 Song-and-Dance Clown at his best! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy starring Danny Kaye and Mai Zetterling. Other actors in the film include Torin Thatcher, David Burns, and Leon Askin. The film was written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, with songs by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine.
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Plot
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.
At the same time, Jerry becomes unwittingly intertwined with spies and has to run from the police. In his escape, he finds himself impersonating a British car salesman, trying to demonstrate a new convertible with loads of bells and whistles. Later on, he finds himself on stage in the middle of the performance of an exotic ballet.
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DVD release
Knock on Wood was issued as a region 2 DVD in March 2009, and is on sale through Amazon UK.
References
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