Boisterous gangster kingpin ‘Bull’ Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out ‘Rolls Royce’ Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce’s intelligence aiding Weed’s schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed’s girlfriend ‘Feathers’ McCoy.

Adding to Weed’s troubles are attempts by a rival gangster, ‘Buck’ Mulligan, to muscle in on his territory. Their antagonism climaxes with Weed killing Mulligan and he is imprisoned, awaiting a death sentence. Rolls Royce devises an escape plan, but he and Feathers face a dilemma, wondering if they should elope together and leave Bull Weed to his fate.

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The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship’s bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up, while the engineer heads for a dockside bar, where he has a confrontation with the wife he had abandoned. Then, as Bill himself goes ashore, he sees a young woman attempt to drown herself. Bill dives in, saves her, and then, assisted by the engineer’s wife, sees that she is cared for. Bill and the rescued woman begin to enjoy one another’s company, but they must contend with the malice of the engineer, as well as a number of other complications.

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Synopsis:
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are great reporters on a Chicgo tabloid and romantically involved as well. Despite their skills in obtaining great scoops, they are often irresponsible and immature causing their city editor to resign over their shenanigans. The publisher promotes Charlie to the job based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.

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Synopsis:
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life – including playing the tuba in the town band. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow picks up his tuba and moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone from the greedy opera committee to the sensationist daily newspaper. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. Babe is a hot-shot reporter who figures the best way to get close to Deeds is to pose as a damsel in distress. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story “Opera Hat” by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra.

Production
Jean Arthur as Louise “Babe” Bennett
Originally, Frank Capra intended to make Lost Horizon after Broadway Bill (1934), but lead actor Ronald Colman couldn’t get out of his other filming commitments. So Capra began adapting Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The two main cast members, Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds and Jean Arthur as Louise “Babe” Bennett/Mary Dawson, were cast as production began. Capra’s “first, last and only choice” for the pivotal role of the eccentric Longfellow Deeds was Gary Cooper. Due to his other film commitments, production was delayed six months before Cooper was available, incurring costs of $100,000 for the delay in filming.

Arthur was not the first choice for the role, but Carole Lombard, the original female lead, “ankled” the film just three days before principal photography, in favor of a starring role in My Man Godfrey. The first scenes shot on the Fox Studios’ New England street “lot” were in place before Capra “discovered” his heroine in a rush screening. The opening sequences had to be reshot when Capra decided against the “broad” comedy approach that had originally been written.

Despite his penchant for coming in “under budget,” Capra spent an additional five shooting days in multiple takes, testing angles and “new” perspectives, treating the production as a type of workshop exercise. Due to the increased shooting schedule, the film came in at $38,936.00 more than the Columbia budget for a total of $806,774.00. Throughout the pre-production and the early principal photography, the project still retained Kelland’s original title, Opera Hat, although Capra tried out some other titles including A Gentleman Goes to Town and Cinderella Man before settling on a name that was the winning entry in a contest held by the Columbia Pictures publicity department.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader wrote:
Except for The Saga of Anatahan, this 1929 release is probably the most underrated of Josef von Sternberg’s sound pictures, and it’s underrated for the same reason: Sternberg is known almost exclusively as a visual stylist, but the most exciting thing here is the highly creative sound track. It’s Sternberg’s first talkie–a near remake of Underworld, a spiritual romance about a doomed gangster, with the same lead (George Bancroft) and Fay Wray–and although this is a minority opinion, I find it better than the original in many ways. With Richard Arlen and Tully Marshall.

THE SCREEN; Distorted Humor.
In “Thunderbolt,” an audible production featuring George Bancroft, there is a queer idea of humor, that of portraying what the producers esteem to be the lighter side of the death cell. The greater part of this production is of scenes in an aisle of barred cells, with a privileged negro slayer entertaining his colleagues in crime by playing the piano and singing hymns. Another convict warbler is wont to render a song heralded as “Broken-hearted,” when one of the condemned men is about to shuffle off this mortal coil.

There also is in this talking film yarn a unique specimen—a comic warden—who talks about the electric chair as if it were a suite of rooms in a specially cool corner of a hotel. It is this official, played by the capable Tully Marshall, who calls upon Thunderbolt, alias George Bancroft, to quiet an obstreperous criminal who has acquired a pistol. Tunderbolt snatches the weapon from the man and bangs him over the head with the butt. The dangerous man topples off into a corner as somebody in another cell sings “Rock-a-bye, Baby.”

It behooves the comic warden to do something for Thunderbolt. He thinks it over and decides that the giant gangster can have his dog in his cell.

There is nothing edifying about this production, and it is hardly an entertainment, for while there may be, once in a long while, a gangster who grins at death, this particular prison, presumably Sing Sing, has all the inmates in the condemned cells as happy and hearty as if they were about to take a dip in the surf, which one is tempted to call extravagant.

The dialogue in this production was written by Herman J. Mankicwicz. It is of the wise-cracking species. Jules and Charles Furthman are responsible for the story and Josef von Sternberg officiated as the director. It is a musical comedy plot striving to masquerade as a drama. The chapters that are not in the death cells deal with Thunderbolt’s romance. Thunderbolt talks so as to make one remember that at least part of his name suggests the great god Thor. He declaims his lines so that all may know his power and determination. When words roll from his tongue one expects them to be punctuated by lightning. The idea of any other man being brave enough to snatch at the heart of this Thor’s goddess is out of the question.

It happens that Bob Morgan, who is “framed” after captivating Ritzy, Thunderbolt’s dreamy-eyed girl, is incarcerated in a death cell directly opposite Thunderbolt. The big man knows that the youngster is loved by Ritzy and the only worry the gangster has at that moment is not when he is to go to the electric chair, but whether or no he will be able to kill Morgan before he (Thunderbolt) expiates his other crimes. He refuses, until the eleventh hour, to say the word that will free Morgan. One rather wonders why the District Attorney would take Thunderbolt’s word.

One of the many preposterous incidents in this film is that of having a marrige ceremony take place in a death cell, the couple being Ritzy and Bob Morgan.

Thunderbolt goes to his doom with a loud guffaw, which is caused by something which you know he would hardly smile at, even if he were free and light-hearted.

Fay Wray is pretty, but she, or Mr. von Sternberg, has odd notions of the well-spoken girls who run around with killers. Richard Arlen is fairly competent as Bob Morgan. Poor Tully Marshall was called in to play the part of the comic Warden. One can’t say that he is funny, that he is real or that his jokes are in keeping with his official position. But that’s not Mr. Tully’s fault.
Morduant Hall, NY Times, June 21, 1929

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