The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod

Comedy / Romance / Musical

Film Review

Abstract picture representing The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
After their successful pairing in Wonder Man (1945), Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo are reunited for another exuberant musical comedy, the third of six highly successful films that Kaye made for independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn.   Grossing four million dollars, The Kid from Brooklyn was one of Goldwyn's most profitable films and helped to secure the reputation of Danny Kaye as one of Hollywood's most bankable performers.

A remake of the 1936 Harold Lloyd film The Milky Way, The Kid from Brooklyn suffers somewhat from its transition to a musical.  Most of the numbers appear to have been crowbarred in with great difficulty and have little, if anything, to do with the plot.  Some of comedy routines are sloppy and over-laboured, occasionally looking like hand-me-downs from a cheap vaudeville act.  Despite its obvious imperfections, the film is a lively and enjoyable romp, thanks to the star quality that Kaye and Mayo bring to it.
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Film Synopsis

Burleigh Sullivan is a shy but ambitious milkman from the Brooklyn district of New York.  When his horse goes into labour on the public highway, he turns to nightclub singer Polly Pringle for help in calling an ambulance.  Polly is Burleigh's kind of girl, but how can he, a mere penniless milkman, win such a wonderful woman?  Fate gives him a helping hand when, one evening, he manages to clock a prize fighter named Speed McFarlane who had been harassing his sister.  When the story gets into all of the newspapers,  Speed's manager, decides to turn Burleigh into a boxing champion.  Burleigh can hardly believe his good fortune as he wins a series of matches in a row.  What he doesn't know is that the fights have all been rigged and that he is heading for an almighty fall...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Norman Z. McLeod
  • Script: Don Hartman, Melville Shavelson, Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, Grover Jones, Frank Butler, Richard Connell, Lynn Root (play), Harry Clork (play), Eddie Moran
  • Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
  • Music: Carmen Dragon
  • Cast: Danny Kaye (Burleigh Sullivan), Virginia Mayo (Polly Pringle), Vera-Ellen (Susie Sullivan), Steve Cochran (Speed McFarlane), Eve Arden (Ann Westley), Walter Abel (Gabby Sloan), Lionel Stander (Spider Schultz), Fay Bainter (Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne), Clarence Kolb (Mr. Austin), Victor Cutler (Photographer), Charles Cane (Willard), Jerome Cowan (Fight Announcer), Don Wilson (Radio Announcer), Knox Manning (Radio Announcer), Kay Thompson (Matron), Johnny Downs (Master of Ceremonies), The Goldwyn Girls (Themselves), Fred Aldrich (Handler Carrying Hogan from Ring), Betty Alexander (Goldwyn Girl), Jimmy Ames (Ring Announcer)
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 113 min

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