Characters & Themes
The Male Animal (1942) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1942 · 101 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Elliott Nugent
- Starring
- Jack Carson, Gig Young, Walter Brooke, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Bailey, Henry Fonda
Midwestern University trustees fire three faculty accused of communist sympathies, and Ed Keller threatens English professor Tommy Turner for planning to assign a controversial prose piece. Tommy’s wife Ellen urges him not to read it, while her ex‑boyfriend, player Joe Ferguson, visits, takes her dancing, and fuels Tommy’s fear of losing her.
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