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So You Want to Wear the Pants(1952)

November 8, 195210m

63%User score 63 percent

User Score

3 votes

Overview

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

Director: Richard L. Bare
Writers: Richard L. Bare

Top Billed Cast

George O'Hanlon
Corporal Joe McDoakes
Phyllis Coates
Alice McDoakes (uncredited)
Fritz Feld
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Del Moore
Joe's Office Co-Worker (uncredited)

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James Seay

Milkman (uncredited)

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McDoakes' Lawyer (uncredited)

Jackson Wheeler

Office Co-Worker (uncredited)

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: So You Want to Wear the Pants
Original language: English
Production: Richard L. Bare Productions

Keywords

husband wife relationship
role reversal
psychiatrist
psychiatry

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