Director: EDWIN BURKE. Based on the 1934 book by Mrs Arnold Rothstein. Screenplay: Edwin Burke. Camera: Ernest Palmer. Art director: Jack Otterson. Musical score: Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange, David Buttolph. Music director: Arthur Lange. Songs: "Foolin' With the Other Woman's Man" (Faye) by Lew Brown and Harry Akst; "Harlem Versus the Jungle" by Lew Brown and Harry Akst. Costumes: Rita Kaufman. Sound recording: William D. Flick. Producer: Winfield Sheehan.
Copyright 7 May 1934 by Fox Film Corp. New York opening at the Roxy, 25 May 1934. U.S. release: 8 June 1934. Australian release: 13 June 1934. 7,889 feet. 87½ minutes.
U.K.and Australian release title: WHEN NEW YORK SLEEPS.
SYNOPSIS: The true story of Arnold Rothstein, gambler, as told by his widow. The story had previously been told in Paramount's Street of Chance (1930), starring William Powell as the gambling man and Kay Francis as his wife. Re-made in 1961 as King of the Roaring 20's with David Janssen.
NOTES: Academy Award for Shirley Temple "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934". (Despite her prominence in the film's original advertising, Shirley's role is small.)
COMMENT: It's Spencer Tracy's film, but his portrait is somewhat hampered by one of those insistent scripts that continuously hammers home the message, "Crime does not pay!" Mrs Rothstein herself is played by the immaculate Helen Twelvetrees, while Alice Faye (in her second film) has a terrific role as the singer who has a yen for Mr A.
Although the movie has a great deal of curiosity appeal, it doesn't repay the viewer in entertainment value anything like Tracy's next film for Fox, Marie Galante (1934) which is so zestfully directed on a spare-no-expense budget by the great Henry King at his most accomplished.
Copyright 7 May 1934 by Fox Film Corp. New York opening at the Roxy, 25 May 1934. U.S. release: 8 June 1934. Australian release: 13 June 1934. 7,889 feet. 87½ minutes.
U.K.and Australian release title: WHEN NEW YORK SLEEPS.
SYNOPSIS: The true story of Arnold Rothstein, gambler, as told by his widow. The story had previously been told in Paramount's Street of Chance (1930), starring William Powell as the gambling man and Kay Francis as his wife. Re-made in 1961 as King of the Roaring 20's with David Janssen.
NOTES: Academy Award for Shirley Temple "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934". (Despite her prominence in the film's original advertising, Shirley's role is small.)
COMMENT: It's Spencer Tracy's film, but his portrait is somewhat hampered by one of those insistent scripts that continuously hammers home the message, "Crime does not pay!" Mrs Rothstein herself is played by the immaculate Helen Twelvetrees, while Alice Faye (in her second film) has a terrific role as the singer who has a yen for Mr A.
Although the movie has a great deal of curiosity appeal, it doesn't repay the viewer in entertainment value anything like Tracy's next film for Fox, Marie Galante (1934) which is so zestfully directed on a spare-no-expense budget by the great Henry King at his most accomplished.