Stars: Lawrence Gray, Sheila Bromley, J. Farrell MacDonald Director: Albert Herman A reporter witnesses a sea captain getting robbed by crooks after delivering $40,000 in silks. Paid in cash, it is a setup to steal the money back!
Ha...that’s funny....my question is why don’t they bleed? So many socks, no blood. In some of these early fun films, sometimes even their hats stay on!!! Lol.......
I just love the over acting!!! And you can almost hear the director saying.... "okay.... when you jump out of the car.... stop... look around... and say something obvious .... and run.....!! " " Oh... and always remember to grab your hat before you go anywhere... !!!"
Just like in the old suspense movies, after they hear a scary sound downstairs in the dark (stormy) night, they MUST get their housecoat and slippers on first, before heading down those stairs!! 😱😱😱
Love seeing the old streets of Los Angeles. FYI, during the car chase scene, they are on/in/around Regent Street and Bagley Avenue in Culver City. The cops home address, 3745, is actually 3745 Bagley Avenue. The house is gone and it is now an apartment building. Sadly, ALL of those cute little houses in seen in the background are gone having been replaced by ugly 60's/70's apartment buildings along the entire street. When the gangsters pull in the driveway at 21.23, the tall boxy building you see in the background is the Culver City Hotel, which still stands today..
Well before I was born...but California as I remember it from my own childhood when it was truly beautiful, bountiful, and safe. Alas! Thanks for the details and best wishes.
My second time, watching this awesome "action" movie, within the last year or so. Well worth it. So sad, 90 years later, they're all gone now, but their memory will always live on {April 2, 2021}.
The ship in the film was the Lottie Carson, a three mast, centerboard schooner, launched on July 11, 1881, for the Dolbeer and Carson firm of SanFrancisco and named after the owner’s daughter. The Lottie Carson eventually appeared in several movies, including “Slave Ship” Souls at Sea”, and “South of Pago Pago”, besides this one. After a collision with the Mexican vessel Campeche, she was stranded off Mazatlan, Mexico in 1941. No lives were lost. Source: “Images of America - Hall Brothers Shipbuilders”, by Gary M. White, Arcadia Publishing.
Thank you. My GF was a physician assigned to marines in China and Haiti, as well as in bases in the USA. He was in a convoy from France to USA when his ship's motor was torpedoed by a U-boat under command of war criminal Helmut Patzig. It took a day to sink and 700+ swimmers were rescued. 28 crewmen were killed by the torpedo. USS Covington.
Los Angeles.....clean, uncluttered, not over-populated, and California....still replete with orange groves, and plenty of orchards....aaaaahhhhh, the good old days.
Great movie. I really enjoyed it. Fight scenes seemed as if they were speeded up and didn't people fall softly in the earlier fight scenes. I have saved this watch again another night. Very entertaining. I especially liked Fred. He was funny without being annoying.
A good 'B' movie. Great street scenery. Nice to 'freeze-frame and enjoy the 1935 street activity. Terrific extended ending worthy of the fights in the old Republic serials.
Ward Jones ...can any (body) say exactly WHERE these street scenes were filmed ? I'm thinking LA but not even certain about that ... the ship scenes seem to show long beach ca. in the distance but the eartquake in '33 did a lot of damage..maybe culver city ?
What the world needs, but hasn't yet realized it, is a compilation (both in CD format and in DVD) of every musical 'bit' that the great and greatly-underrated 'Fuzzy' Knight ever performed on film (and on any hidden audio takes that may be hiding in the archives). He could have had some interesting routines with Chico Marx, bur on his own he is such a terrific performer whose ease makes it seem oh so simple - and that is talent worked to a high degree of excellence.
Good of you to post this. The actors are from the theater, so their gestures and expressions aren't appropriate for film, but it is well paced, and the humor works.
Oh how I absolutely adored and loved this film! It was wonky but had a touch of everything that gave it some real charm! I even loved the Actors who brought to life these Characters making fall in love with them.
These old movies are great. Scriptwriters in those days could write a script without using the F word as a gap filler. The fight scenes are more realistic then the Kung Fu rubbish in movies nowadays.
The leading man reminds me of Randolph Scott. Fight scenes in these old movies are kind of comical. Later the choreography made them look more realistic.
Corny movie with a lot of stereotypes including the Irish policemen, dapperly dressed bad guys and good guy newspaper man who falls for the ship captain's daughter. But okay to watch on a quite evening
This lighthearted farce is worth the look. The MacGuffin is 40,000 dollars and the plot, well, there is not a lot of that. Fight scenes are choreographed by 6th graders and the foley work needs a little "punching up". I'm almost certain the punch sounds were made with "slap sticks". Anyway, a worthwhile spending of an hour. Enjoy a simpler time in movies. 5/10
thanks to all the folks giving info re this. like for instance the ship.we found it very naive but thats what was intended. its true about the street scenes and particularly so if you knew them . This is from uk. Note weve not complained for once.We could do about fist aggression but will not do this time.
At the 4:15 mark the fella says, there's your 40,000 dollars. She exclaims: In cash? And the silk merchants says, I didn't expect to get it (payment) in money. At that time people still thought that cash or currency and real money were the same, notwithstanding the criminal act of EO 6102 wherein FDR stole the real money, gold coinage, from the people and gave them fiat "paper" currency in exchange. To this day few people recognize that FDR perpetrated the greatest theft in history and less than 1 in a thousand recognizes what defines REAL money as opposed to that which is used AS money. The 12 Characteristics of Real Money 1. It must be easily transportable, i.e. must have a high value to mass ratio (high value density although value is subjective). 2. It must be easily divisible for commerce and trade. 3. It must be resistant to physical and chemical damage. 4. It must be a store of value, i.e. not subject to severe inflation...note that value is subjective, having temporal and geographical properties, i.e. depends on time and place. 5. It must have intrinsic value, i.e. a common denominator, e.g. labor for prospecting, mining, transporting, processing/smelting, analyzing/assaying and coining or a general usefulness such as for food, raw materials or in manufacturing usable goods or refined materials. 6. It must be universally recognized and accepted, i.e. people must have confidence in it.7. It must be rare, i.e. not easily found, discovered or synthesized. 8. It must be difficult to counterfeit and efficiently analyzed for quality and quantity, i.e. low cost & speedy procedures for differentiating real and bogus money or stuff used AS money must exist. 9. It must be defined in writing, i.e. full disclosure and perhaps even legally defined. For example 1 troy ounce 0.999 fine silver or fractions thereof. 10. It should be something of substance or backed by that which sustains life, i.e. not simply computer bits or ledger book entries. Food, materials, equipment, cars, trucks, fuel, planes, ships, locomotives, boxcars and land are substances as are silver and gold.11. It should be easily measured for weight and purity or authenticated (see #8 above), i.e. it should not require complex or time consuming methods of measurement. 12. It should not be easily monopolized, or in limited or controlled distribution. cloth or fabric or cryptocurrencies do not meet all the criteria and therefore do not qualify as real money and only qualify as fiat currencies used AS money.
