Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released October 15, 1956
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Associated Film Releasing
75 min. (Feature Film)
75 min. (Feature Film)
A famous female sharpshooter arrives in town for a saloon engagement. But her real agenda is revenge. Years earlier as a girl of thirteen, she watched Jud Ivers and his sons steal her family's farmland. Her father killed one Ivers boy while defending the land, before being killed by Ivers Sr.. Her mother was shot in the back by Ivers' other son Ben. Accompanied by her manager (Joe Besser), Kate is determined to make her own justice with the Ivers family, even if it means going around a U. S. Marshal (William Talman).
Joe Besser costars in a comic relief/pathos role as Kate's mentor, an alcoholic medicine show peddler, who with his late sharpshooter wife, raised the young girl after Ivers killed her family.
Costar Robert Lowery is best remembered for playing Gotham City's Caped Crusader, in the Columbia serial BATMAN AND ROBIN (1949).
Avg. Rating: 
[7.67/10]
[7.67/10]
Peggie Castle
Kate Masters
Joe Besser
Doc McGinnis
William Talman
Marshall Dan Corbin
Robert Lowery
Big Mike Dougherty
Marie Windsor
Bess
Ian MacDonald
Jud Ivers
Earle Lyon
Ben Ivers
Barbara Turner
Jenny Ivers
Norman Jolley
Gruber
Kit Carson
Pete
Earl Hansen
Earl
David Tomack
Henchman
Arvo Ojala
Henchman
Sid Lopez
Henchman
Ben Cameron
Henchman
Susan Lang
Saloon girl
Gregory Moffett
Young boy
Richard H. Bartlett
Director
Earle Lyon
Executive Producer
Richard H. Bartlett
Producer
Ian MacDonald
Associate Producer
Richard H. Bartlett
Original Story
Norman Jolley
Original Story and Screenplay
Guy Roe
Director of Photography
Carl Pierson
Film Editor
Thomas Connolly
Set Designer
Harry Reif
Set Dresser
Al Overton
Soundman
Leon Klatzkin
Musical Composer and Conductor
Henry Helfman
Wardrobe
Roland Ray
Makeup
Harold E. Knox
Production Manager
Karl Brainard
Prop Master
Arvo Ojala
Technical Advisor
Buddy Longworth
Stillman
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