Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released June 25, 1958
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
20th Century-Fox
97.6 min. (Feature Film)
97.6 min. (Feature Film)
Rancher Jim Douglass (Gregory Peck) arrives in the gentle border town of Rio Riva, to watch the hanging of four "bravados" (Lee Van Cleef, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva) captured after killing a teller in a botched bank robbery, and who Douglass also believes raped and murdered his wife several months earlier. After the four stage a daring escape that almost kills Rio Riva's Sheriff, Douglass takes charge of a posse. When the fugitives make it across the Mexican border, Jim begins a vigilante hunt to exact his revenge. His vendetta threatens to consume his soul, particularly after he finds that everything that he thought may not be the truth.
Joe DeRita costars as Mr. Simms, the hangman, a significant role on which a major plot twist is based.
Filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope.
Avg. Rating: 
[8.33/10]
[8.33/10]
Gregory Peck
Jim Douglass
Joan Collins
Josefa Velarde
Stephen Boyd
Bill Zachary
Henry Silva
Lujan
Albert Salmi
Ed Taylor
Lee Van Cleef
Alfonso Parral
Joe DeRita
Mr. Simms
Gene Evans
John Butler
Andrew Duggan
Padre
Herbert Rudley
Sheriff Sanchez
Jason Wingreen
Hotel clerk
Ken Scott
Primo
Barry Coe
Tom
Kathleen Gallant
Emma Steinmetz
George Voskovec
Gus Steinmetz
Robert Adler
Tony Mirabel
Alicia del Lago
Angela Lujan
Ada Carrasco
Senorella Parral
Jacqueline Evans
Mrs. Barnes
Juan Garcia
Deputy
Robert Griffin
Loomis
Jack Mather
Quinn
Maria Gracia
Helen Douglas
Ninos Cantores de Morelia Choral Group
Themselves
Henry King
Director
Herbert B. Swope
Producer
Frank O'Rourke
Novel
Philip Yordan
Screenplay
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
William Mace
Film Editor
Mark-Lee Kirk
Art Director
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Director
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Chester Bayhi
Set Decoration
Harry M. Leonard
Sound
Bernard Freericks
Sound
Lionel Newman
Music
Bernhard Kaun
Music Conductor
Charles LaMaire
Wardrobe Designer
Ben Nye
Makeup
Helen Turpin
Hair Stylist
Stanley Hough
Assistant Director
Teresa Brachetto
Script Supervisor
Bob Henderson
Best Boy
Leonard Doss
Technicolor Consultant
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