Directed by Raoul Walsh
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Tracy and Bennett are good as wisecracking couple who fall in love in NYC. Tracy plays a beat cop, a role it seems he would play many times, and meets Bennett at the local clam chowder restaurant where she is a waitress. The snappy dialogue between the two of them is priceless as she resists his advances to no avail. Meanwhile, her sister gets married but is hounded by an old gangster boyfriend, whom she hides in the attic. The film is populated with numerous memorable characters: the drunk who comes and goes the whole picture, the father who communicates by Morse Code with his eyes and the tug boat captain who eats like a seal and talks to the audience out of frame. A fun, smart pre-code picture.
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