This is a great film, but if you know that the actor Alan Reed is the voice of Fred Flinstone and he even resembles the Stone-ager it does kind of make you laugh while watching the film. Ya-ba-da-ba-do!
shareYeah, I felt a litle sorry for Fred Flintstone when John Garfield roughed him up pretty good! You can hear little hints of Fred's voice, especially when the character is talking to his crony on the telephone.
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Haha! You beat me to it!
Yes, the character "Ezra Liam Kennedy" played by Alan Reed (Birth Name - Theodore Bergman) voiced the character of "Fred Flintstone" on the cartoon "The Flintstones" (1960 - 1966).
that's funny, i didn't know that as i was watching, i have to check it out when tcm airs it again. only time i've heard the expression down the road a piece except in a song, thats some friendly welcome when he arrived in the town, gave me a twilight zone vibe. i thought the "man wanted" sign meant someone was on the run. i recognised the actor from the twilight zone episode passage on the lady anne, i can't believe this was made in 1946, he looks just the same as in that episode made two decades later, maybe he's like angela lansbury, someone who has always seemed old. the narration came rather unexpected 30 minutes in. these old movies where they had to sneak around the violent part and make you realise some other way it has happened makes it way more effect full than in these "anything goes" times.
made me burn the food,
promise myself i wouldnt look,
the cheap trick you played on a fool,
resisted you long as i could,
i know you know pretty darn well what it is you do,
tried to be a gentleman,
but you got me in a trance,
honey its too hot to dance,
and im gonna go back to the food place,
flip the burgers before they burn to a crisp in the pan.