Boy Meets Girl
James Cagney and Pat O'Brien give Hollywood an affectionate chuck under the chin in this filmmaking spoof based on the same-titled 669-performance Broadway hit by Bella and Samuel Spewack.
904
ratings
6/10
|
| Price: | $11.50 |
| List Price: |
|
| You Save: | $1.49 (11% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 5-7 business days
|
Made-on-Demand
|
DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 7, 2014
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson & Ralph Bellamy | |
| Performer: | Frank McHugh, Dick Foran, Bruce Lester & Ronald Reagan | |
| Directed by | Lloyd Bacon | |
| Edited by | William Holmes | |
| Screenplay by | Sam Spewack & Bella Spewack | |
| Composition by | Ray Heindorf & Howard Jackson | |
| Art Direction by | Esdras Hartley | |
| Director of Photography: | Sol Polito | |
| Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner & Hal B. Wallis |
Entertainment Reviews:
70%
50%
It all descends into frantic farce very quickly, but the in-jokes come thick and fast and, by taking potshots at every available target, the film hits enough bullseyes to succeed.
Full Review
Film4
The picture version of this comedy classic is a little more than adequate but not socko.
Full Review
Variety
Boy Meets Girl has gone off a little since its Broadway days, but it's still amusing entertainment for people curious to know how Hollywood gets that way.
Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
A likable spoof of Hollywood (1938), with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as fast-talking screenwriters, and Marie Wilson (the original dumb blond) around for pulchritudinous laughs.
Full Review
Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
The story behind this riotous film is almost as fascinating as the movie itself.
Full Review
TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
Good version of the play that should have been better.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nearly all the lines which the script could least afford to spare have been dropped, presumably because of conflict with the delicately casuistical Hays code of morals.
Full Review
New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
In roles based on colorful screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, James Cagney and Pat O'Brien fling words around like hot potatoes as they invent boy-meets-girl storylines to please a fading cowboy star (Dick Foran) and a huffy producer (Ralph Bellamy). Their latest idea has a new wrinkle - revenge against the cowboy and the exec.
Keywords:
27%off
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 33,636
- UPC: 888574092801
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item
