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Birds Do It

Soupy Sales is Flying High...and the race for space - is up in the air!
Aug 13, 1966 · 1h 28m
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Comedy
Action

PLOT

Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.

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CAST

Soupy Sales
Melvin Byrd
Tab Hunter
Lieutenant Porter
Arthur O'Connell
Professor Wald
Edward Andrews
General Smithburn
Doris Dowling
Congresswoman Clanger
Beverly Adams
Claudine Wald
Louis Quinn
Sergeant Skam
Frank Nastasi
Yellow Cab Driver
Directed by Andrew Marton

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Columbia Pictures
Country
US

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