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Overview
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Writers:
Frank Butler (1936 screenplays)
Richard Connell (1936 screenplays)
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Release Date:
21 March 1946 (USA) more
Plot:
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister... more | add synopsis
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Kid from Brooklyn-The Milkman Was On His Way **1/2 more (8 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Danny Kaye | ... | Burleigh Hubert Sullivan |
 | Virginia Mayo | ... | Polly Pringle |
 | Vera-Ellen | ... | Susie Sullivan |
| Steve Cochran | ... | Speed McFarlane |
| Eve Arden | ... | Ann Westley |
| Walter Abel | ... | Gabby Sloan |
| Lionel Stander | ... | Spider Schultz |
| Fay Bainter | ... | Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Wilbur Austin |
| Victor Cutler | ... | Photographer |
| Charles Cane | ... | Willard - Reporter |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Fight announcer |
| Don Wilson | ... | Radio announcer |
| Knox Manning | ... | Radio announcer |
| Kay Thompson | ... | Matron |
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Runtime:
113 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Australia:PG | Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #11291) | Sweden:Btl
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Lionel Stander repeats his role from the original version of the film, The Milky Way (1936), starring Harold Lloyd, ten years before. more
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Remade as The Calcium Kid (2004) more
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Pavlova more
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List: Wacky boxingmore
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Danny Kaye began to show his comic genius in this so-so film of 1946. He would star with his constant co-star Viginia Mayo. In this film, he plays a milque-toast milkman and often acts like he is ready to do Walter Mytty. He is mistaken for knocking out a prize fighter (Steve Cochran) and that's when the fun starts.
Cochran, managed by Walter Abel with a wise-cracking girlfriend, Eve Arden, tries to recruit Kaye to fight in the ring. Kaye is hilarious in the ring but it doesn't take a genius to note that the fights are fixed so that Kaye will win.
Mayo plays his love interest and sings delightfully. Vera-Ellen plays his charming sister and dances up a storm in a number called "Josie." To complicate the plot somewhat, Ellen and Cochran fall for each other.
Fay Bainter is a steal scener playing a patron of the arts who tries to spar with Kaye. The scenes with them doing this are hilarious.
The picture goes downhill as success spoils Kaye and he goes into inane musical routines.
The film is definitely for the lighthearted. Beautifully filmed in Technicolor.