The Kid From Brooklyn

Released Mar 21, 1946

1h 54m

Musical

Comedy

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60%

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5 Reviews

69%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

Smitten by Polly Martin (Virginia Mayo), milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Danny Kaye) promises that his sister, Susie (Vera-Ellen), can get Polly a job at the club she owns. That night, Burleigh interrupts two men accosting Susie in the alley and apparently knocks them both out. When the men are discovered to be middleweight boxing champion Speed MacFarlane (Steve Cochran) and his coach, Speed's manager (Walter Abel) convinces Burleigh to take up boxing. Hoping to impress Polly, Burleigh agrees.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

The Kid From Brooklyn keeps stalling the plot to fit in another of the usual Goldwyn musical-comedy elements

Rated: 2/5

Dec 16, 2013

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 3/5

Jun 17, 2005

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Surprisingly pleasing Danny Kaye vehicle.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 13, 2004

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Rated: 3/5

Aug 22, 2003

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Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

For Kaye fans only. It has some moments, but Kaye is an acquired taste and here the taste is somewhat sour.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 2, 2003

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Nonstop laughs featuring the ever-wonderful Danny Kaye, a young Vera Ellen, and the classically sarcastic Eve Arden. Excellent old, family comedy.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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This remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way is not one of Kaye's best vehicles; an uneven, overlong comedy with intrusive (and unnecessary) production numbers by Vera-Ellen and Virginia Mayo.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Cute, silly very lightweight comic musical with Kaye antic as ever and an amazing array of wonderful supporting actesses. Eve Arden is acerbic and terrifically droll, Vera-Ellen youthful, fresh and she dances like a dream, Fay Bainter all fractured dignity and Virginia Mayo, at the height of her beauty, sweet and charming.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

People should rediscover Danny Kaye.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

a musical remake of harold lloyd's 1936 'milky way' which i prefer.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Not a boxing fan, but a Danny Kaye fan :)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Norman Z. McLeod

Director

Danny Kaye

Burleigh Sullivan

Vera-Ellen

Susie Sullivan

Virginia Mayo

Polly Pringle

Walter Abel

Gabby Sloan

Eve Arden

Ann Westley

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Synopsis

Smitten by Polly Martin (Virginia Mayo), milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Danny Kaye) promises that his sister, Susie (Vera-Ellen), can get Polly a job at the club she owns. That night, Burleigh interrupts two men accosting Susie in the alley and apparently knocks them both out. When the men are discovered to be middleweight boxing champion Speed MacFarlane (Steve Cochran) and his coach, Speed's manager (Walter Abel) convinces Burleigh to take up boxing. Hoping to impress Polly, Burleigh agrees.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Screenwriter: Grover Jones, Frank Butler, Richard Connell, Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, Eddie Moran
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Production, RKO Pictures
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 1946, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 31, 2020
Runtime: 1h 54m

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