Directed by Julien Duvivier
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Stories of various Manhattan residents are linked by a coat of tails, each owner putting it to a different use. Actor Charles Boyer saves his best performance for his girlfriend and her jealous husband, who may or may not have shot him. Charles Laughton directs his first symphony orchestra with hilarious results, in perhaps the movie's best scene. Edward G. Robinson fools his classmates at their class reunion, but only for so long. Even W. C. Fields owns it for a little while, but can only get drunk on cocoanut milk. The final owner is Paul Robeson in a black shanty town down South, nowhere close to Manhattan. The stereotyping in the last episode is so offensive it was denounced by Robinson and caused Paul Robeson to quit making pictures in Hollywood forever.
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