Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 86 min · dir. Charles Reisner
- Music
- Comedy
Synopsis
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Charles Reisner
- Writer
- Harry Sauber
- Cinematography
- Jack A. Marta
- Studio
- Republic Pictures
- Released
- 1937-11-26
- Running time
- 86 minutes
Cast & crew
Charles Reisner Director
Phil Regan
Leo Carrillo
Ann Dvorak
Tamara Geva
James Gleason
Ted Lewis
Cab Calloway
Kay Thompson
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Quite Good Comedy · Charlie Heinz · 2014-05-14
First of all, some of comments were by film illiterates. Republic Pictures was NOT a poverty row studio. It was owned by Herbert J. Yates, who happened to also own CFI, Consolidated Film Industries, the main film laboratory in Hollywood. That is, CFI processed the films of the "major" studios. Indeed, Yates was a businessman who owned CFI and figured since he had the lab he would start a studio himself--Republic Pictures. Yates was a good bottom line businessman. He bought up a string of smaller companies to form Republic. He KNEW what kind of movies people liked simply from the amount of…
★★★ · Mystery musical · Big Boomer · 2017-11-17
The credits announce that this film "introduces" Gene Autry but Autry's first film was actually "In Old Santa Fe" (1934). Boy meets girl. Boy seems to lose girl. Boy finds girl again. A timeless plot line that still works. Very entertaining performances by all.
★★★ · Not so bad. · unclepup · 2012-10-01
Although I agree that this film has problems, it also has much to recommend it. Ted Lewis, Kay Thompson, and Cab Calloway were true American originals and Phil Regan was a good singer. The settings, probably borrowed, were lavish and of course Miss Dvorak turned in her usual fine performance. And a rare chance to see Tamara Geva, what more should we expect from a Poverty Row studio?
