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Director:
László Kardos
Writer:
Allen Rivkin (written by)
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Release Date:
August 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Film-Noir more
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Minor but interesting as "musical" noir more (12 total)

Cast

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Mickey Rooney ... Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest ... Jane Tafford
William Demarest ... Fluff
James Craig ... Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown ... Edna

Louis Armstrong ... Himself
Louis Armstrong and His Band ... Themselves
Tommy Rettig ... Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers ... Lieutenant Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott ... Behr
Tommy Farrell ... Boynton
Myrna Dell ... Paulette Ardrey
Jacqueline Fontaine ... Frieda

Vic Damone ... Himself
Monica Lewis ... Herself
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #15216) | Sweden:15
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Of Joe Pasternak's 57 MGM productions released between 1942 and 1966, this film was just one of two which failed to garner a contemporary New York Times review. The second movie was Looking for Love (1964). more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Child actor playing Artie giggles after inadvertently causing car wreck in which vehicle he is riding runs into another car - hardly the reaction a real child would have. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Hines' Retreat more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Minor but interesting as "musical" noir, 19 October 2000
Author: bmacv from Western New York

The murder/suspense plot is little more than a convenient set of bookends to showcase the post-adolescent Mickey Rooney, Sally Forest and a gathering of jazz greats (Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Vic Damone) in the setting of a Sunset Strip nightspot. James Craig isn't bad as the mustachioed "heavy" doting on his office foliage (after Dewey's defeat in '48, mustaches became quite unAmerican). This movie is neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring, and only marginally "noir" by virtue of date, setting and plotline, but it's watchable -- the music and dance numbers are pretty good. Like a couple of other films ("The Man I Love;" "Love Me or Leave Me") it gives evidence that a new genre might have been in formation: the musical noir.

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