2h | Comedy, Drama | 15 July 1959 | Color, WS
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Keenan Wynn.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052896/
Watched online, good print.
3 songs in the Soundtracks; 1 by FS over credits, 1 by FS & Eddie Hodges (High Hopes), 1 by CJ.
Rated 6 on 2015-05-07.
Good cast, good story, but don't really like it enough to add a plus. FS plays a loser with "high hopes" but low results, and a lovely son in tow.
EP is nice to look at, but there's an underlying frailty that makes their potential pairing something to dread, not hope for.
ER is always calling FS a bum, although TR tries to bully him down from that. But he persists. He finally pays for FS's back rent in the end, but the abuse along the way should make it something FS would avoid. Apparently this is not the first time, so it likely won't be the last.
CJ & KW each bring their own abuses on FS, adding to my negative reaction.
So this is a story (mostly) well-done, but not that bears repeating. It holds no pleasures for me.
distr. UA, dir. Capra; 6
