Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish S... Leggi tuttoA naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.A naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket.
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- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Mr. Simpkins
- (as Sidney Bracy)
- Betting Teller
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- Racetrack Policeman
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- Tote Board Announcer
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- Track Announcer
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The story begins with Jennie arriving in the big city and she's looking for Jinx and Tip (Charley Foy and Allen Jenkins). They think she's with the law...but someone ill-advisedly suggested to her that she find the two gamblers so they can help her locate and buy a specific horse, Firefly. Unfortunately, the pair are not only hapless gamblers but really unsavory jerks who repeatedly do things which could get them sent to prison. But Jennie is so brainless that she never notices as they rob her again and again and again.
In addition to Wilson being tiresome, the film also has a major problem when it comes to Jinx and Tip. At times, they seemed to be comic relief...there for fun and silliness. But other times the pair are downright evil....to the point where you cannot like them and you only want to see them in prison. The characters clearly were poorly written and should have just been comic relief...but they wanted them to be silly AND sympathetic AND evil...a combination that just didn't work.
Overall, a very difficult film to watch, as it just is hard to keep watching. My wife kept hoping I'd give up...but I apparently like pain and kept watching up to the ending. And, at least the final scene...well, it worked VERY well and gave me exactly what I wanted!
What this movie does have, thank goodness, is lots of comedy and an absolutely adorable main actress, Marie Wilson. She is one of a kind. 100 percent pure adorability. She puts the "bumpkin" in country bumpkin in this movie. She wins some money in the sweepstakes and there's nothing funnier than a country bumpkin winning money. The comedy is easy to achieve from there. Don't we all love country bumpkins? Especially when they're pretty and adorable? I should say so. And of course with her money she wants to buy a horse. A race horse. Uh-oh, here we go. Country bumpkin. Pretty girl. Money. Race horse. Sounds like the recipe for a movie to me!
The actor who plays the jockey who rides the big horse in the big race is a look-a-like and sound-a-like for Jimmy Cagney. I don't know if that was on purpose or just an accident. Now that I think about it I think it was on purpose. At least I hope it was because it works beautifully. It kept making me laugh.
Not much more to say I guess without spoiling the movie. It's fun. It's funny. And it's adorable. 8 stars.
Perhaps Marie Wilson was not putting on an act. According to the AFI Catalogue, studio records state that because she couldn't pronounce Jenkins' character name "Xerxes," often saying "Jerky," the writers gave Jenkins the nickname of "Tip." In any case, I'm sure she didn't cry all the way to the bank.
At this point these two guys use this young girl to get money for themselves. Then Jenny buys the winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket and ends up with 150 thousand dollars, which is about three million today. She buys firefly and a nice house with grounds for the horse, but still Tip and Jinx are always trying to scam this woman, even out of her last ten thousand dollars. Should she have been more prudent with her money? For sure. But that doesn't give these two the right to continually victimize her and then say that they are her pals.
Along for the ride is Johnny Davis as one of the most unappealing leading men in the history of the world, who wants to marry Jenny but also does not want to be considered a fortune hunter by others. So this movie's characters are either unlikeable thieves (Tip and Jinx), terminally dense (Jenny), or seemingly without purpose to the entire plot (Jenny's boss/boyfriend). It's hard to like a movie without anybody to root for.
This is very much a second feature, something probably made to fill out the evening's bill that people were hardly going to watch in the first place, and that's a good thing.
Jenkins hits all the marks, and likely adds some of his own, in this otherwise routine comedy. With his distinctive voice, the character actor was dependable, for decades, in this type of role. Wilson is cute and bubbly; at times, you wonder if Judy Garland borrowed some of her delivery. Mugging jockey Frankie Burke (as "Chalky" Williams) has a couple of good scenes and, as a concerned landlady, veteran Vera Lewis gets to share some of her acid-tongue. Among the extras, it's interesting to see John Harron get some lines and screen time. The brother of silent D.W. Griffith "silent" star Robert Harron, John is the fast-talking Narragansett racetrack announcer. Diner chef Jerry Colonna rolls his eyes. All told, director William McGann neatly corrals the second-string cast and crew at Warner Bros.
****** Sweepstakes Winner (5/20/39) William McGann ~ Marie Wilson, Allen Jenkins, Johnnie Davis, Charley Foy
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThe fire engines seen going to the race track were from Los Angeles Fire Department Station 66, that was located at 1715 W. Florence Avenue from 1929 to 1989. That building still stands as of this writing. The new Station 66 is located at 1909 W. Slauson Blvd. and serves the Hyde Park - South LA - Vermont Harbor area.
- BlooperWhen Jennie looks at the sweepstakes ticket after first returning to her room, in close-up the hands holding the ticket have nail polish. However in longer shots of Jennie she doesn't have nail polish on her fingernails.
- Citazioni
Horseplayer: [after horse they bet on loses] You call yourself a tipster. "Play Corned Beef. Corned Beef can't lose." You were talking to the jockey's Aunt Minnie. And me with 10 bucks on these whiskers. I oughta take it outta your hide.
'Tip' Bailey: All right, all right! Take it easy, will ya? I'm only human.
Horseplayer: Who told ya that?
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