Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released July 01, 1958
Featuring Moe Howard (Solo)
Featuring Moe Howard (Solo)
20th Century-Fox
71 min. (Feature Film)
71 min. (Feature Film)
Space Master X-7, a satellite probe for exploring the possibility of life in space, returns to Earth. In his laboratory, Dr. Pommer (Paul Frees) discovers that it picked up a space-borne fungus that rapidly expands and feeds on carbon-based matter, human or otherwise. Ex-wife Laura Greeling visits Pommer over a custody argument about their son, and inadvertantly becomes a carrier of the microscopic lifeform. Pommer is killed by the alien growth, and a government coverup leaves his ex-wife to mistakenly assume that she is a suspect in his death. Government authorities are now in a race to find her before she can start a widespread epidemic.
Moe Howard has a small role as a cab driver who comes in contact with Laura.
Uncredited, director Edward Bernds can be heard as a television news announcer.
Dr. Pommer was played by Paul Frees, who primarily made his career in animation, particularly the 1960s television productions of the Jay Ward Studios. His best-known credit is the voice of ROCKY & BULLWINKLE's "Boris Badenov," and he worked with The Three Stooges twice in 1965... on the pilot cartoon episode of THE NEW 3 STOOGES, and as the narrator in THE OUTLAWS IS COMING.
Avg. Rating: 
[6.75/10]
[6.75/10]
Paul Frees
Dr. Charles Pommer
Bill Williams
John Hand
Lyn Thomas
Laura Greeling
Robert Ellis
Pvt. Joe Rattigan
Gregg Martell
Jim Dale
Moe Howard
Retlinger
Robert Bice
Colonel
Thomas Browne Henry
Prof. West
Bernard Glasser
Man in bunker
John Ward
Harris, police sketch artist
Fred Sherman
Mr. Morse
Don Lamond
Used car salesman
Edward Bernds
TV bulletin voiceover
Lane Chandler
Deputy Chief Ryder
Court Shepard
Fire Chief
Thomas Wilde
Collins
Helen Jay
Airline ticket clerk
Nesdon Booth
Control tower manager
Jess Kirkpatrick
Captain Vaccarino
Judd Holdren
First Officer Jared
Rhoda Williams
Stewardess Archer
Carol Varga
Elaine Frohman
Joan Barry
Jean Meyers
Al Baffert
Plane passenger
Hank Mann
Plane passenger
Joseph Becker
stunts
Edward Bernds
Director
Bernard Glasser
Producer
Norman Maurer
Associate Producer
George Worthing Yates
Screenplay
Daniel Mainwaring
Screenplay
Brydon Baker
Director of Photography
John F. Link Sr.
Film Editor
Harry Reif
Set Decoration
Victor B. Appel
Sound Director
Josef Zimanich
Original Music
Robert Littlefield
Makeup
Maudlee McDougall
Hair Stylist
Clark Ross
Costume Supervisor
Lou Perloff
Assistant Director
Don Post
Special Effects
Edward Shiells
Set Construction
Monroe Liebgold
Property Master
Violet McComas
Script Supervisor
Henry Staudigl
Dialogue Director
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