Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuMichael McBride is declared dead after a car accident leaving his wife Connie grief stricken. When he reappears he has difficulty convincing people it's him due to the interference of Tolliv... Alles lesenMichael McBride is declared dead after a car accident leaving his wife Connie grief stricken. When he reappears he has difficulty convincing people it's him due to the interference of Tolliver and a young Ignatius claiming to be his son.Michael McBride is declared dead after a car accident leaving his wife Connie grief stricken. When he reappears he has difficulty convincing people it's him due to the interference of Tolliver and a young Ignatius claiming to be his son.
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- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
Jason Robards Sr.
- Henry Fletcher
- (as Jason Robards)
Gertrude Astor
- Madam Zorada
- (Nicht genannt)
Bill Beauman
- Beard
- (Nicht genannt)
Harry Brown
- Show Boat Character
- (Nicht genannt)
Robert Clarke
- Cabby
- (Nicht genannt)
Carol Coombs
- Angel
- (Nicht genannt)
Myrna Dell
- River Boat Captain's Daughter
- (Nicht genannt)
Donn Gift
- Messenger Boy
- (Nicht genannt)
Robert Homans
- Uncle Barney
- (Nicht genannt)
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Sure It's A Stretch! But it's still funny. It even has a pratfall.
Adolphe Menjou plays a mischievous rogue and Pat O'Brien plays himself as always. They meet after Pat's supposed death and Adolphe takes control of the situation with wacky results.
As Menjou says, "What a Magnificent Mess!" It starts out slow but it picks up with increasing momentum until you wish it could slow down. But it can't.
It's a house of card built upon shifting sands. Situations are extremely contrived but it makes for a delightfully wild ride.
I wanted to write this review because there were only 2 reviews, both somewhat negative. Pat O'Brien does not always have to play a cop. He may always be Pat O'Brien, but he fits into this role very plausibly. He is, after all, pulling a fast one, and no one can pull a fast one like Pat O'Brien.
In any case, Adolphe Menjou steals this movie away from him. Adolphe is a very versatile actor and he is one of the few that could pull of his role with any kind of believability.
Adolphe Menjou plays a mischievous rogue and Pat O'Brien plays himself as always. They meet after Pat's supposed death and Adolphe takes control of the situation with wacky results.
As Menjou says, "What a Magnificent Mess!" It starts out slow but it picks up with increasing momentum until you wish it could slow down. But it can't.
It's a house of card built upon shifting sands. Situations are extremely contrived but it makes for a delightfully wild ride.
I wanted to write this review because there were only 2 reviews, both somewhat negative. Pat O'Brien does not always have to play a cop. He may always be Pat O'Brien, but he fits into this role very plausibly. He is, after all, pulling a fast one, and no one can pull a fast one like Pat O'Brien.
In any case, Adolphe Menjou steals this movie away from him. Adolphe is a very versatile actor and he is one of the few that could pull of his role with any kind of believability.
Pat O'Brien has been married to Ellen Drew since they graduated from college. When her previous boyfriend, Rudy Vallee shows up, O'Brien is jealous, goes out on a tear, and hooks up with perpetual drunk Jack Norton. Somehow they switch clothes, and Norton is killed and O'Brien winds up on Adolphe Menjou's showboat. When O'Brien is declared dead, Menjou persuades him into various shenanigans to reintroduce himself gradually to Miss Drew.
O'Brien drew this assignment as the first of his five-picture contract with RKO. He certainly seems willing enough to try anything, but his matter-of-fact delivery does not mix well with the increasing hysteria of the situations he gets into, as he impersonates a ghost, his uncle from Ireland, and eventually an amnesiac.
It's one of those comedies that doesn't bear much thinking about. Instead, the thing to do is to enjoy Menjou, his speed and grace as a confident confidence man, fast-talking O'Brien into these dumb ideas. In many ways the energy is that of the first screen version of The Front Page, in which Menjou played Walter Burns and O'Brien Hildy Johnson.
O'Brien drew this assignment as the first of his five-picture contract with RKO. He certainly seems willing enough to try anything, but his matter-of-fact delivery does not mix well with the increasing hysteria of the situations he gets into, as he impersonates a ghost, his uncle from Ireland, and eventually an amnesiac.
It's one of those comedies that doesn't bear much thinking about. Instead, the thing to do is to enjoy Menjou, his speed and grace as a confident confidence man, fast-talking O'Brien into these dumb ideas. In many ways the energy is that of the first screen version of The Front Page, in which Menjou played Walter Burns and O'Brien Hildy Johnson.
Speed McBride (Pat O'Brien) is not happy with his wife, Connie. An old boyfriend (Rudy Vallee) is in town and she is gaga about the guy. What's worse, when Speed asks Connie, she says she isn't sure whether she's STILL in love with the old boyfriend or not! As a result, Speed goes off on a bender and through some impossible to believe circumstances, he's assumed to have been killed driving while drunk. However, he's completely alive. Instead of just revealing to everyone he's really alive, he lets a guy he just met (Adolph Menjou) convince him to pretend he's dead. What's more, although he doesn't know the guy at all, he then follows his wacky plan to return home as a ghost to teach his wife a lesson. If you think that this sounds like a bad sitcom plot...well, you are pretty much catching on to the plot. And, if you think it can't get much stupider...well, you're wrong!
This is a dumb movie. Enjoyable in a brainless sort of way but clearly a film that must have embarrassed the cast and which they sooner would have forgotten. Watchable but awful.
By the way, I noticed one reviewer seemed shocked that Pat O'Brien actually starred in this film--implying he was only a supporting actor. Well, he almost exclusively starred in films and generally was NOT a supporting actor...in case you were wondering.
This is a dumb movie. Enjoyable in a brainless sort of way but clearly a film that must have embarrassed the cast and which they sooner would have forgotten. Watchable but awful.
By the way, I noticed one reviewer seemed shocked that Pat O'Brien actually starred in this film--implying he was only a supporting actor. Well, he almost exclusively starred in films and generally was NOT a supporting actor...in case you were wondering.
Did Connie (Ellen Drew) attend college as a newborn infant? Yet another preposterous casting job where the husband (Pat O'Brien) looks like the dad but they are supposed to be the same age, along with Gordie (Rudy Vallee). At least the two guys were close in age.
That's the least of the problems with this steaming pile of celluloid. The plot, dialogue, and acting are weak, especially O'Brien. He is so unconvincing that it seems like he never even met any of the other cast members before the scenes start.
Don't waste your time watching this forgettable trash.
That's the least of the problems with this steaming pile of celluloid. The plot, dialogue, and acting are weak, especially O'Brien. He is so unconvincing that it seems like he never even met any of the other cast members before the scenes start.
Don't waste your time watching this forgettable trash.
Good set-up for a farce. O'Brien fights with wife who is conflicted by appearance of old college flame Vallee, O'Brien gets drunk with Norton (filmdom's once-famous drunk-comic) and they drive into the bay. Norton killed, but O'Brien alive (wearing Norton's jacket) and fished out by showboat proprietors, including ship hand Menjou. O'Brien wakes up thinking he's dead because Menjou is wearing devil's costume (for stage show) while stoking coal into the ship's furnace! When he tries to get back to his wife, O'Brien is urged by kibitzer Menjou to act as a ghost to find out if her love for him is real or if she's actually in love with Vallee. So far so good, and done with a fairly light touch, then the rest of the film devolves into a frantic hard-breathing comic muddle. Too bad the writers ran out of ideas. We even see Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer pop-up as the cross-eyed long-lost son of Norton, thinking O'Brien is his dad. But nothing works comically or romantically after the set-up.
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- WissenswertesAccording to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, the riverboat set was specifically built for this film and was the first permanent set of its kind.
- PatzerWhen Steve slams the hatch on Kismet, there is a newspaper laying on the deck beside the hatch. In the next, closer shot, when Kismet opens the hatch, the newspaper has moved to the corner of said hatch.
- VerbindungenReferenced in Nocturne (1946)
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- Laufzeit1 Stunde 10 Minuten
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