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Medicine Man, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Pretty Mamie and her brother Buddy are beaten and abused daiIy by their heartless father, shopkeeper Ben Goltz. A ray of hope shines into their bIeak lives when Dr. John Harvey's Medicine Show rolls into town promising "the greatest aggregation of merry-making mirth provokers" ever. Mamie steaIs away to the show at night and quickly succumbs to the smooth-talking charms of Dr. Harvey. When Papa Goltz Iearns of Mamie's transgression, he beats the poor girI and arranges her immediate marriage to SchuItz, a brute twice her age. Dr. Harvey will need to act fast if he is save the girl he loves.
Jack Benny was a vaudeville veteran cast as the handsome Ieading man in The Medicine Man. A Iegendary icon of American entertainment, he left an indelibIe mark in radio with "The Jack Benny Show" (1932-48), and teIevision with "The Jack Benny Show" (1950-1965), two episodes of which are included here as bonus material. |
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