Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Howard W. Koch

Writers:

Aurania Rouverol (characters)
Edward Everett Hutshing (written by) ...

Release Date:

1 June 1959 (Sweden)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics. |

Plot Keywords:

Judge | Real Estate | Factory | Mayor | Business Ethics

Cast

Mickey Rooney	...	Andrew 'Andy' Hardy
Patricia Breslin	...	Jane Hardy
Fay Holden	...	Mrs. Emily Hardy
Cecilia Parker	...	Marian Hardy
Sara Haden	...	Aunt Milly Forrest
Joey Forman	...	Beezy 'Beez' Anderson
Jerry Colonna	...	Doc
Vaughn Taylor	...	Thomas Chandler
Frank Ferguson	...	Mayor Benson
William Leslie	...	Jack Bailey
Tom Duggan	...	Councilman Warren
Jeanne Baird	...	Sally Anderson
Gina Gillespie	...	Cricket Hardy
Jimmy Bates	...	Chuck
Teddy Rooney	...	Andrew 'Andy' Hardy Jr.

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) (Perfecta Sound)

Certification:

Australia:G | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #19089)

Company:

Fryman Enterprises

Trivia:

The final of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney.

Goofs:

Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when the family gathers outside to meet the townspeople, Chuck comes out of the front door twice.

Movie Connections:

Follows Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)

Soundtrack:

Lazy Summer Night

Too bad they didn't make this movie in about 1950 or so !

Mickey Rooney is as cute as ever and smart too. Mickey (Andy) makes a lot of sense in this movie and his mum looks great. It's not as zany as the earlier ones and the plot is really kind of serious and not funny. The boyfriend of this girl looks really nasty and mean and I don't like seeing Andy involved in this scenario at all. I have never seen this last Hardy movie and it's actually playing right now on TCM. I think they played all the Hardy movies from the beginning. I don't see what's wrong with starting an airplane parts factory in the town. It would create jobs for many people. It's my opinion that most people leave small towns because they can't find jobs. I wish they could have gotten Ann Rutherford to play his wife in the movie, not that there's anything wrong with Patricia Breslin, but it would have been much cuter if they saved his marriage for a surprise at the end of the movie and his wife should have been Rutherford.