So this is New York / the Enterprise Studios present ; a Screen Plays, Inc. production ; screenplay by Carl Foreman and Herbert Baker ; produced by Stanley Kramer ; directed by Richard O. Fleischer.
Publisher:
Olive Films,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Henry Morgan, Rudy Vallee, Hugh Herbert, Bill Goodwin, Virginia Grey, Leo Gorcey, Jerome Cowan, Dona Drake. Based on the novel "The big town" by Ring Lardner. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Summary:
The film follows a rube, played by Henry Morgan, on a journey as he uses his recently obtained inheritance to take a trip to 1910's New York with his wife and sister-in-law. Along the way, he encounters numerous eccentric characters including a drunken jockey, a sleaze ball millionaire and a devious stage actor, all scheming to court his sister-in-law in order to gain a slice of the inheritance.
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