Dreamboat
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Cast
Clifton Webb
as Thornton Sayre
Ginger Rogers
as Gloria Marlowe
Anne Francis
as Carol Sayre
Jeffrey Hunter
as Bill Ainslee
Elsa Lanchester
as Mathilda Coffey
Fred Clark
as Sam Levitt
Paul Harvey
as D.W. Harrington
Ray Collins
as Timothy Stone
Richard Garrick
as Judge Bowles
Jay Adler
as Desk Clerk
Reviews
CinemaSerf
Clifton Webb is fun in this rather daft caper about a rather fastidious English literature professor "Sayre" whose blissfully routine existence is shattered when television starts showing re-runs from his silent film career. His onscreen characters, very much in the vein of Douglas Fairbanks or Rona...
