The Kid From Brooklyn

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The Kid From Brooklyn

1946

1h 54m

Musical

Comedy

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Smitten by Polly Martin (Virginia Mayo), milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Danny Kaye) promises that his sister, Susie (Vera-Ellen), can get Polly a job at the club she owns. That night, Burleigh interrupts two men accosting Susie in the alley and apparently knocks them both out. When the men are discovered to be middleweight boxing champion Speed MacFarlane (Steve Cochran) and his coach, Speed's manager (Walter Abel) convinces Burleigh to take up boxing. Hoping to impress Polly, Burleigh agrees.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

12/16/2013

2/5

The Kid From Brooklyn keeps stalling the plot to fit in another of the usual Goldwyn musical-comedy elements

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

06/17/2005

3/5

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

09/13/2004

3/5

Surprisingly pleasing Danny Kaye vehicle.

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

08/22/2003

3/5

Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

01/02/2003

2/5

For Kaye fans only. It has some moments, but Kaye is an acquired taste and here the taste is somewhat sour.

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07/28/2016

Nonstop laughs featuring the ever-wonderful Danny Kaye, a young Vera Ellen, and the classically sarcastic Eve Arden. Excellent old, family comedy.

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10/16/2015

This remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way is not one of Kaye's best vehicles; an uneven, overlong comedy with intrusive (and unnecessary) production numbers by Vera-Ellen and Virginia Mayo.

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11/23/2014

Cute, silly very lightweight comic musical with Kaye antic as ever and an amazing array of wonderful supporting actesses. Eve Arden is acerbic and terrifically droll, Vera-Ellen youthful, fresh and she dances like a dream, Fay Bainter all fractured dignity and Virginia Mayo, at the height of her beauty, sweet and charming.

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03/08/2013

People should rediscover Danny Kaye.

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01/19/2013

a musical remake of harold lloyd's 1936 'milky way' which i prefer.

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02/13/2012

Not a boxing fan, but a Danny Kaye fan :)

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Synopsis

Smitten by Polly Martin (Virginia Mayo), milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Danny Kaye) promises that his sister, Susie (Vera-Ellen), can get Polly a job at the club she owns. That night, Burleigh interrupts two men accosting Susie in the alley and apparently knocks them both out. When the men are discovered to be middleweight boxing champion Speed MacFarlane (Steve Cochran) and his coach, Speed's manager (Walter Abel) convinces Burleigh to take up boxing. Hoping to impress Polly, Burleigh agrees.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Screenwriter: Grover Jones, Frank Butler, Richard Connell, Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, Eddie Moran
Production Co: RKO Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Production
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 1946, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 31, 2020
Runtime: 1h 54m