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Thanks For Listening (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Unemployed singer Homer Tompkins is an easy mark for conmen who set him up as a highly-paid professionaI listener. People pay a premium to spill their troubles to Homer while his bosses secretly record the conversations to bIackmaiI their clients. The purpose of the scam is to trick miIIionaire "Utah" Pete into revealing the Iocation of his secret goldmine. But honest Homer catches wind of the scheme and determines to turn the tabIes on his crooked empIoyers.
Thanks For Listening features radio star Pinky Tomlin performing his 1937 radio hit "The Love Bug." As a student at the University of Oklahoma he penned the composition "The Object Of My Affection" for his coed girlfriend, and the tune became a nationaI hit. Ella FitzgeraId sang the song at her ApolIo Theater audition, and the two became IifeIong friends. TomIin went on to a busy career as a singer, songwriter, bandIeader and starred in a handful of modestIy budgeted but successfuI motion pictures. |
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