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The Great Man

The Great Man

5,0 /10 (8 Votes)
1956 EN 92 min

Overview

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

Release date

01/12/1956

Votes

8

Popularity

1.0

Everybody loved the Great Man except those who hated his guts!

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

92 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-01-07

⭐ 7

When national treasure "Fuller" dies, it falls to his erstwhile radio colleague "Joe"(José Ferrer) to put together the traditionally adulatory obituary programme, and so he routinely sets about gathering information and comments from the man's contemporaries. Quite quickly, though, he begins to discover that maybe this man wasn't as pure as the driven snow after all. Indeed, though people don't wish to speak ill of the dead to a microphone, there are soon no shortage of detractors assessing his character and posing quite a quandary for "Joe". Meantime, there's some internal politicking going a…

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