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...production of King Kong. Unlike famed Kong, 30-ft. prehistoric whatnot who, transplanted to Manhattan, was shot by airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, his son is a mild hobgoblin, with small taste for adventure. When Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack (instead of Fay Wray, who aroused his father's lust) arrive to hunt for hidden treasure on his South Sea island, he greets them hospitably, defends them against hostile natives...
...popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break the boss and supplant him in the business. Unfortunately, this bold adventurer becomes overconfident, and in the end the stock market crash gets him. His wife, played by Fay Wray, sticks by him, and the piece has a happy ending...
Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brodie George Raft Lucy Calhoun Fay Wray Swipes McGurk Jackie Cooper...
Wallace Beery and George Raft put a little more life into their parts than was actually there and were ably cast as the leaders of the Bowery in its glamorous era. Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray is the charming victim, and although she is in constant company with Steve and Chuck, she retains her simple, sweet, and virtuous habits to the very end. A superior "poof" from Mr. Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future...
...regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives him a home. Still, Steve Brodie has no saloon. When two brewers offer to give...