Le retour d'André Hardy

Original title: Andy Hardy Comes Home

1958
Approved
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

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Mickey Rooney and Teddy Rooney in Le retour d'André Hardy (1958)

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.

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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.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.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.

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

550

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Featured review

5/10

Nice Try MGM

This movie hails from a time when MGM had fallen on hard times and was looking to relive it's glory days of the 30's and 40's by creating new versions of it's classic films. The Andy Hardy series was the role of Mickey Rooney's career. This film was a nice effort. A shame Lewis Stone who played Judge Hardy passed away in 1953, his absence really hurt this 1958 remake. Ann Rutherford's absence as Andy's old love Polly Benedict also hurt this film. This is strictly a trip down memory lane movie for old Andy Hardy fans. The problem is it is rarely shown. I saw it last one Saturday in 1987 and have not seen it since. Turner Classic Movies which owns the series does show the older Andy Hardy movies but not this one.

atlantic965
Apr 10, 2006
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Trivia
The flashback showing Andy reminiscing about giving Betsy Booth his music pin is actually a scene from Place au rythme (1939), a non-Hardy series collaboration between Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney was called upon to dub "Betsy"over the name "Patsy," and it's obvious his lips don't match what he says.

Goofs
Andy is showing a fellow passenger on a an airplane his Carvel High yearbook. He mentions Betsy Booth (Judy Garland). Betsy Booth should not have been in the yearbook since she never went to Carvel High.

Quotes
Thomas Chandler: Stop talking like George Washington. Let's be practical.

Crazy credits
Instead of "The End," this film concludes with a title card saying "To Be Continued." But there were no further Hardy films and no continuation.

Alternate versions
Originally, the print ended as Mickey Rooney accepts a judgeship at Carvel and shows him on the judge's bench with the words "to be continued" superimposed on the frame at the end. This is the version currently shown on the Turner Classic Movies channel, but it was for press previews only. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor changed their minds and decided not to continue the series, so the version released to the public simply ended without reference to Andy Hardy becoming a judge.

Connections
Features L'amour frappe André Hardy (1938)

Soundtracks
Lazy Summer Night
(1958)
Music and Lyrics by Harold Spina and Mickey Rooney
Played on a record and sung by an unidentified group at Beezy's party