The Milky Way (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 87 min · dir. Leo McCarey
A fighting milkman who outfights and outsmarts everyone-including himself!
- Comedy
- boxing film
Synopsis
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Leo McCarey
- Writer
- Richard Connell
- Cinematography
- Alfred Gilks
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1936-02-07
- Running time
- 87 minutes
Cast & crew
Leo McCarey Director
Frank Mills
Eddie Dunn
Verree Teasdale
Lloyd Ingraham
George Barbier
Harry Myers
Charles K. French
Harold Miller
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Just so funny · cabootee · 2008-12-31
I really like this movie. The milk man,Harold Lloyd is so funny. He is afraid of his own shadow but he is clever, modest and stupid. He uses converstaion to quiet his enemies. He has lots of funny physical moves, like running away, training as a fighter that just crack me up. Nice surprise ending. Funny,watch it!
All that's missing is the banana creme pie · Dark Moon · 2011-05-28
...or maybe Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp. In other words, if you like physical comedy, you should love this. I have to admit, I liked it better than Soupy Sales or The Three Stooges, but this sort of comedy has never done anything for me. That's nothing against the genre (or this film), it's just the fickle and personal nature of this "sense" we call humour. It's not all physical, though. In particular, Verree Teasdale hones her fine-edged tongue, and snarks with the best of 'em—in fact, she has some of the best one-liners in the whole film. As is typical in movies of this era (and plenty of…
