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3 May 1941 (USA) morePlot:
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
This Has Numerous Plots Going At Once ... more (3 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Eddie Albert | ... | Edward 'Eddie' Barnes | |
| Joan Leslie | ... | Mary Matthews | |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Grandma Allen | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Robert Barnes | |
| William T. Orr | ... | George Formsby | |
| John Litel | ... | Tim Gordon | |
| Anthony Quinn | ... | Chic Collins | |
| Edward Brophy | ... | Detective Rork | |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Ella Barnes | |
| Vaughan Glaser | ... | Charles Matthews | |
| Nana Bryant | ... | Martha Matthews | |
| Edward Gargan | ... | Detective Dudley Kane | |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | David Tipton | |
| Frank Faylen | ... | Pick, Chic's Bodyguard | |
| William B. Davidson | ... | Harrison 'Harry' Eckles (as William Davidson) |
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USA:Approved (PCA #7008)Fun Stuff
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The original play opened in New York on 30 September 1938, with Alison Skipworth in the role of Grandma. It closed after 16 performances. moreSoundtrack:
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... one of them is interesting. Nor do they all really mesh.
I have noticed that many of the movies falling into the "hicks nix sticks pix" type have rather complicated legal and financial transactions at their center. This one is about a legacy -- and how and why not to sell one.
How many people in 1941 knew what that even meant? Eddie Albert, always a likable performer, is the one who sells one. It's his mother's but there is a clause allowing for him to get money while she's still alive if he marries and ... Oh, forget it. That is another plot. He gets married.
He buys a company. He doesn't tell his father. He doesn't tell his father-in-law.
His grandmother, Jane Darwell, tries to help the young couple out. And she gets into quite a pickle herself.
This is neither fish nor fowl. It isn't especially funny. It isn't really romantic. And it's one of those movies in which gangsters are adorable bumbling and ostensibly cute.
As a post script, the two gangsters in question have a couple sequences that presage the two in "The Big Combo." I'm sure Anthony Quinn, who plays the boss, didn't know this. It may have been subliminal even. But it's there.