FULLER BRUSH GIRL, THE (1950)

Milquetoast Humphrey Briggs (Eddie Albert) and his impetuous girlfriend, Sally Eliot (Lucille Ball), are office workers at a shipping firm whose corrupt owner, Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan), uses his company as a front for a massive smuggling operation. When an accident causes Simpson's rich in jealous wife (Lee Patrick) to assume he's cheating on her, the lovebirds get unwillingly drawn into a murder investigation involving a stripper (Gale Robbins) and a hired killer (Fred Graham). Also stars: Red Skelton. (Note: Listen for the voice talents of Mel Blanc when the parrot talks!) Directed by Lloyd Bacon. (RKO, B&W, Region 0, 68 min)