In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
Bull Anderson
- Pug
- (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
- Hick
- (uncredited)
Lucille Ball
- Blonde
- (uncredited)
John Bleifer
- Mumbo the Mute
- (uncredited)
Phil Bloom
- Pug
- (uncredited)
James Burke
- Recruiting Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Marguerite Caverley
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaGeorge Raft and Wallace Beery were at odds during filming. According to Raft, before the fistfight scene, Beery asked Raft to let him throw the first punch and then proceeded to sucker-punch Raft, knocking him out for several minutes. "When I came to I got up and called him everything I could think of," Raft said. They then fought for real, and the crew had to break it up.
- GoofsThe name of George Raft's character, "Steve Brodie," is misspelled "Brody" in the opening credits.
- Quotes
Steve Brodie: Don't ever say I never give ya nothin'.
- Alternate versionsThe version shown on Fox Movie Channel runs seven seconds over 87 minutes. Apparently it is a reissue copy, the missing five minutes due to reediting to fit post code rules. Though it was made for Twentieth Century Films, a new start up film studio organized by Joe Schenck, Bill Goetz (L.B. Mayer's son-in-law) and ex-Warner Bros. production chief Darryl Zanuck, the FMC version is presented under the post merger logo of Twentieth Century Fox complete with fanfare and an end title crediting distribution to TCF. This year a full uncut version was shown at New York's Film Forum which clocked several minutes over ninety minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
- SoundtracksThe Bowery
(uncredited)
Music by Percy Gaunt
Lyrics by Charles Hale Hoyt
Sung by a chorus at the beginning
Played often in the score
Featured review
They Say Such Things and They Do Strange Things
Such are the title-song lyrics to this 1933 frolic, directed by Raoul Walsh to be modest in story but long on atmosphere. Made at 20th, it has something of an MGM cast: Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper had been such a hit in "The Champ" two years earlier, the studio must have been anxious to reteam them. Cooper was a good little actor, but here, as.an unsympathetic little ruffian in the Lower East Side of the Gay '90s, he's just marking time, and Beery, whom practically everybody who ever worked with him appears to have loathed, tries and fails to be a charmer. The story's that of Steve Brodie and his alleged jump off the Brooklyn Bridge (it was also the basis for "Kelly," a one-night 1965 musical that was, up till then, the biggest money-loser in Broadway history); it's not much of a story, but it does allow for some lively set pieces, and George Raft, as Brodie, has a part that suits him well. There's also Fay Wray, who's warm and appealing, and Pert Kelton, expertly knocking out one of the sassy broads she did so well back then. Marred by phony-looking process shots and plot implausibilities and non-clear things (I'm still not sure, did they throw a dummy off the bridge or not?), and off-the-charts non-PC by today's standards, it's nevertheless rollicking, and you can be sure that under Walsh's watch you'll get hard-hitting fights, atmosphere galore, rude insult humor, and a setting where, like the song goes, they do strange things.
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- marcslope
- May 17, 2021
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Oko za oko, zub za zub
- Production company
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- Budget
- $421,496 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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