A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Nellie Fisher
- Dancer
- (as Nelle Fisher)
Boyd Ackerman
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Patricia Alphin
- Guest
- (uncredited)
Alice Backes
- Swedish Immigrant Girl
- (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
- Ward Heeler
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Universal announced on February 20, 1946 its purchase of the screen rights to the Broadway show, Felix Jackson, then-husband of Deanna Durbin, was assigned to produce the film. Instead, the studio revealed on November 8 that Mr. Jackson would be opting out of the remainder of his contract after he finished overseeing the editing of another Durbin feature, I'll Be Yours (1947).
- GoofsWhen Timothy Moore is learning to read , he reads from Beatrix Potter's Tale of Peter Rabbit , which wasn't published until 1902 .
- SoundtracksOh Say, Can You See (What I See)
(uncredited)
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Sung by Deanna Durbin
Featured review
Up in Central Park
Despite not featuring in the top billing, this film really belongs to the honest emigrant Irishman "Moore" (Albert Sharpe). Straight off the boat with his feisty daughter "Rosie" (Deanna Durbin) he bumps into a welcoming committee that lets him know how he can take part in the democratic process (for a new mayor) and make a few bucks at the same time. He excels at his task and by a quirk of fate finds himself superintendent of Central Park - on a wapping great $3,000k per year! He is hands on, so likes to feed the animals - an activity that is clearly prohibited and attracts the attention of journalist "Matthews" (Dick Haymes). Realising the man's job and the purpose of the feeding - geese, grouse, duck all destined for the table of kingpin "Tweed" (Vincent Price), he writes a column, gets "Moore" fired and rouses the wrath of "Rosie" who intercedes for her father and also manages to attract the attention of "Tweed" too. It's quite a fun tale of corrupt local politics, naivety and integrity this, with Sharpe delivering well and Durbin doing the lively characterisation that she always did engagingly, too. Price makes for a reasonable sophisticate-cum-power-broker and Hobart Cavanaugh also chips in nicely as the hapless Mayor just doing what he is told. The ending is all a bit rushed, the story is really quite incomplete on a number of fronts and the musical numbers don't do a great deal for maintaining the pace, but it has a certain plausibility to it. It's quite possible this is what New York might have been like at the start.
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- CinemaSerf
- Jun 5, 2023
Details
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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