Excuse My Dust (1951)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Roy Rowland

Writers:

Stephanie Nordli (writer)
George Wells (writer)

Release Date:

29 June 1951 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor...

Plot Keywords:

Inventor | Automobile

Cast

Red Skelton	...	Joe Belden
Sally Forrest	...	Liz Bullitt
Macdonald Carey	...	Cyrus Random, Jr.
William Demarest	...	Harvey Bullitt
Monica Lewis	...	Daisy Lou Shultzer
Raymond Walburn	...	Mayor Fred Haskell
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Belden
Lillian Bronson	...	Mrs. Matilda Bullitt
Herbert Anderson	...	Ben Parrott (as Guy Anderson)
Paul Harvey	...	Cyrus Random, Sr.
Marjorie Wood	...	Mrs. Cyrus Random Sr.
Scott Lee	...	Horace Antler
Alex Gerry	...	Mr. Antler
Jim Hayward	...	Nick Tosca
Will Wright	...	Race judge

Also Known As:

Mr. Belden's Amazing Gasmobile (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

USA:82 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | West Germany:6

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The original "Morgan" automobile in _Magnificent Ambersons (1942)_ was also used in this film.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951)

Sally Forrest's most colorful film

I love Sally Forrest. Sally Forrest is known mostly for her film noir films, especially those for director Ida Lupino. But Sally Forrest was a great dancer who was born to star in lavish MGM musicals. Just didn't happen...well...almost just didn't happen. Check out MGM's Excuse My Dust, a Red Skelton musical. Red Skelton was the poor man's Bob Hope and always seemed better suited for black-and-white B-movies like "The Fuller Brush Man." As a side kick opposite Ricardo Montalban or Esther Williams he seemed like Robin Williams in Sound of Music. Excuse My Dust tries to blend wacky slap stick and colorful musical and does all right. The highlight of the film is when Red imagines Sally Forrest in modern clothes doing a very sexy jazz dance. Sally Forrest had an unusual dance style that was like tap slowed down to jazz. This costumed turn-of-the-century musical is certainly Sally's most colorful film which at least shows off her musical talents as well as her legs. (See also "Son of Sinbad" for Sally's most sexy dance segment--another Sally Forrest film in color!, and "The Strip" a black-and-white Mickey Rooney film noir cheapie that features Miss Forrest as a nightclub dancer).