Francis Covers the Big Town It's Brand NEW and it's all Hilarious! A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial. Details Casts Title Francis Covers the Big Town Release Date 1953-06-10 Runtime 01 Hours 26 Minutes Genres Adventure Comedy Crime Family Fantasy Romance Production Companies Universal International Pictures Production Countries United States of America Donald O'Connor Peter Stirling Yvette Duguay Maria Scola Gene Lockhart Tom Henderson Nancy Guild Alberta Ames William Harrigan Inspector Hansen Silvio Minciotti Salvatore Scola Lowell Gilmore Jefferson Garnet Larry Gates Dan Austin Hanley Stafford Dr. Goodrich Gale Gordon Evans Forrest Lewis Judge Stanley Chill Wills Francis (voice) (uncredi? Charles Flynn Jones