The Good Humor Man (1950 film)

The Good Humor Man is a 1950 American slapstick noir action comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin. The film revolves around a Good Humor ice cream salesman who becomes involved in a murder. The film stars Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace, George Reeves, Peter Miles and Frank Ferguson. The film was released on June 1, 1950, by Columbia Pictures.

Plot
Good Humor delivery driver Biff Jones gets in trouble with the law after being falsely connected with a $300,000 robbery of the cash safe at work, and an apparent murder. He is in love with a neighborhood gal, Margie Bellew, who lives with her younger brother Johnny. Biff and Margie, with the help of Johnny and all the kids from the neighborhood, absolve Biff by fighting and capturing the gangsters guilty of the crime.

Cast

 * Jack Carson as Biff Jones
 * Lola Albright as Margie Bellew
 * Jean Wallace as Bonnie Conroy
 * George Reeves as Stuart Nagle
 * Peter Miles as Johnny Bellew
 * Frank Ferguson as Inspector Quint
 * David Sharpe as Slick
 * Chick Collins as Fats
 * Eddie Parker as John
 * Pat Flaherty as Officer Rhodes
 * Richard Egan as Officer Daley
 * Arthur Space as Steven
 * Victoria Horne as Bride
 * Jack Overman as Shirtless Stoker

Reception
The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther panned the film, writing "it does nothing to enhance the reputations of either the movies or a national confectioner's brand." Critic Craig Butler described the film as "a surprisingly engaging little slapstick flick" with a "screenplay [that] is silly and contrived". Henry MacArthur of the Washington Evening Star wrote, "a plot that makes sense is not what you want when you set out to see people clouted with custard pies", and called it "one of the wildest sessions of sustained slaptick on record"... "guided at a rising pitch by director Lloyd Bacon".