Movie
The Long, Long Trailer
Romance film with a runtime of 96 minutes, released in 1954. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of these, The Long, Long Trailer, stars Lucy and Desi as an upwardly mobile couple who decide to buy a trailer so they can live together while his job takes him around the country. Thanks to their naivete in such matters, they end up with a huge, bulky RV that costs five times what they planned. Their "seeing America" trip turns out to be a slapstick disaster, topped by Lucy's foolish decision to hide a heavy rock collection in the trailer; as Desi tries to maneuver a treacherous mountain road, the weighted-down home-on-wheels nearly loses its balance and almost tumbles off a cliff. The story is told in flashback, as Desi 'splains the breakup of his marriage to a motel court manager. Happily, Lucy shows up, goes "Waaaaah" a little, and all is forgiven. Despite the fact that audiences were getting Ball and Arnaz for free each week on television, The Long, Long Trailer was a big hit at the box-office. The film was adapted by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich from a novel by Clinton Twiss, with uncredited assistance from the I Love Lucy writing staff.
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Cast
- Lucille Ball
- Desi Arnaz
- Marjorie Main
- Keenan Wynn
- Gladys Hurlbut
- Moroni Olsen
- Bert Freed
- Madge Blake
- Walter S. Baldwin
- Walter Baldwin
- Oliver Blake
- Perry Sheehan
- Charles Herbert
- Herb Vigran
- Karl Lukas
- Emmett Vogan
- Edgar Dearing
- Geraldine Carr
- Sarah Spencer
- Ruth Warren
- Dallas Boyd
- Howard McNear
- Jack Kruschen
- Edna Skinner
- Alan Lee
- Robert Anderson
- Phil Rich
- John Call
- Wilson Wood
- Dorothy Neumann
- Howard Wright
- Connie Van
- Dennis Ross
- Christopher Olsen
- Ida Moore
- Emory Parnell
- Fay Roope
- Ruth Lee
- Richard Alexander
- Frank Gerstle
- Peter Leeds
- Judy Sackett
- Juney Ellis
- Janet Sackett
- Norman Leavitt
- Edwin B. Willis
- Cedric Gibbons
- Frances Goodrich
- Albert Hackett
- Helen Rose
- Ferris Webster
- Robert Surtees
- Clinton Twiss
- A. Arnold Gillespie
- Edward C. Carfagno
- Edward Carfagno
- Warren Newcombe
