Francis Goes to West Point
1952
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Francis Goes to West Point
1952
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Plot summary
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
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Top cast
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Moderately entertaining farce, especially for children.
Francis Goes to West Point is another pretty funny entry in the series
This is the third in the Francis, the Talking Mule series. It begins with Peter and Francis at a plant where they save the building from being blown up. So Stirling now ends up at West Point. Some later familiar faces turn up here: David Janssen (credited as Dave, later of "The Fugitive") and James Best (yes, the later Roscoe P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard"!) as a couple of guards at the place giving Peter a hard time, and Leonard Nimoy (partially recognizable as a younger version of Mr. Spock from the original "Star Trek" despite not wearing his hair with bangs and no pointy ears!) as one of the cadet football players. As usual, the funniest scenes involve Chill Wills' voice as the mule and his interactions with not only Donald O'Connor but some of the supporting players who discover Francis talking to them. So on that note, Francis Goes to West Point is worth a look.







