Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)
Francis Covers the Big Town is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Donald O'Connor, Yvette Duguay and Gene Lockhart. It is the fourth in a series of films about the misadventures of a young man, played by O'Connor, and his friend Francis, a talking mule, voiced by Chill Wills. Peter Stirling lands a job at a New York newspaper and gets framed for a murder.
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