Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
58 min. (Feature Film)
Dr. Alex Marsh (John Agar) is secretly conducting experiments with nerve gas, hoping to create a weapon for the government. He creates a dangerous compound that theoretically will only paralyze, and then leave the subjects in an extended hypnotic state. But a laboratory accident causes his body to absorb a deadly, gaseous version of the chemical, leaving him with an instantly lethal touch that causes human flesh to mummify into a blackened mass. His body quickly assumes the bloated, mummy appearance of his victims, and in his physical pain and mental fear & paranoia, he becomes a fugitive in the streets of Los Angeles leaving victims in his wake.
Joe Besser appears as a gas station attendant who has a deadly encounter with Dr. Marsh.
The young boy who encounters Marsh is a pre-MUNSTERS Butch Patrick.
Filmed in CinemaScope.
John Agar
Alex Marsh
Paula Raymond
Carol Wilson
Stephen Dunne
Tom Holland
Roy Gordon
Dr. Ramsey
John Alonzo
Carlos
Jack Younger
Mike
Joe Besser
Service station attendant
Butch Patrick
Davey
Ruth Terry
Woman with packages
Norman Burton
Police Lieutenant
Jack Donner
Detective
Kevin Enright
Police photographer
Chuck Niles
Reporter
Fred Krone
Cab driver
Bob Whitney
Policeman
Gene Nelson
Director
Eugene Ling
Producer
Eugene Ling
Screenplay
Floyd Crosby
Director of Photography
Carl Pierson
Film Editor
Jodie Copelan
Supervising Film Editor
Harry Reif
Set Decoration
Victor B. Appel
Sound
Arthur Cornall
Sound Editor
Sonny Burke
Music Composer and Conductor
John Intlekofer
Wardrobe
Bob Mark
Makeup
Willard Kirkham
Assistant Director
Harold E. Knox
Production Supervisor
Ygnacio Sepulvada
Property Master
Winifred Gibson
Script Supervisor
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