Sing, Sinner, Sing1933
Starring
- Walter Brennan - Henchman Riordan
- Joyce Compton - Gwen
- Jill Dennett - Sadie
- Don Dillaway - Ted Rendon
- Ruth Donnelly - Margaret "Maggie" Flannigan
- Arthur Hoyt - Uncle Homer
- Leila Hyams - Lela Larson
- Paul Lukas - Phil Carida
- Paul McGrail - Louis
- Edgar Norton - Roberts the Butler
- George E. Stone - Spats
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Member Reviews (2)
This film really doesn't know exactly what it is. At times it comes across as a musical, a gangster film, a romance, a melodrama, and then a courtroom drama. It throws too many things at you way too quickly and expects you to hold on to it all. Characters phase in and out of the storyline for no good reason or another, and outside of the simplistic love triangle plot (that is the main plot), the other arcs are pretty much incomprehensible. A good number of the actors are either bad or flat-out annoying, and the sound balance is not good, with the music obscuring the dialogue a fair amount of the time (I realize this is the beginning of talkies, but surely some restoration could be done to clean up the audio). The music was good, but not memorable. 2 stars for the pre-code humor, which was raunchy and funny (when you can catch it through the music).
Goodtime classic.