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The Barefoot Mailman
The Barefoot Mailman is a comedy-adventure film starring Robert Cummings and distributed by Columbia Pictures in 1951. The film was based on the 1943 novel "The Barefoot Mailman" by Theodore Pratt. Filmed in Super Cinecolor on location in Florida where the events take place, it features many elements of the Western.
Plot.
Set in 1895, Robert Cummings plays a con man, Sylvanus Hurley, who is trying to raise the selling price of land he owns by convincing the residents of Miami that
" Peat, George Sears and a man known only as Stafford. Henry John Burkhardt was the last barefoot mailman.
Commemorations.
Commemorations Town of Hypoluxo.
The welcome signs (three in succession) of the Town of Hypoluxo, incorporated in 1955, said "Welcome to Hypoluxo - home of the Barefoot Mailman".
Commemorations Historical marker.
A Florida state history marker, located at Boca Raton on the grounds of the Spanish River State Park, honors barefoot mailmen.
Commemorations Statue.
The original stone statue of