Copyright 24 July 1947 by RKO Radio Pic¬tures Inc. Released: 1 September 1947 (U.S.A.). New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 24 July 1947. U.K. release: December 1947. Australian release: 24 December 1947. 8,706 feet. 96½ minutes.
U.K. release title: Bachelor Knight.
SYNOPSIS: Teenager falls in love with an older man who is forced to pretend that he returns her affections.
NOTES: This somewhat forced little comedy received such a remarkable string of lauda¬tory reviews (from some of the sourest crit¬ics in the business too!) that a nomination for Best Original Screenplay was inevitable. That it won over such competition as Polonsky's Body and Soul, the Kanins' A Double Life, Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Amidei, Franci, Viola and Zavattini's Shoe-Shine is even more astonishing. But that award (and it was the only nomination for an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award he ever received in his Hollywood sojourn) certainly set Sidney Sheldon on the path to bestseller fame and fortune.
Domestic rental gross: an amazing $5,550,000.
This is the film that introduced the famous routine: "You remind me of a man!" - "What man?" - "Man with the power!" - "What power?" - "Power of hoodoo!" - "Hoodoo?" - "You do!" - "Do what?" - "Remind me of a man!" - "What man?" - "Man with the power!"
COMMENT: A very agreeably played comedy. The script is moderately amusing, the direction capable, if undistinguished, and production values are well up to "A" standard.
Of course a lot of the humor at the expense of teenage fashion and mores is now rather dated but those of us with a sense of nostalgia will find that a bonus to the fun. Whether the film will be appreci¬ated - or even understood - by today's drive-in kids is entirely another matter.
Certainly the producer has gathered a delightfully persuasive roster of players - star, character and minor - including some of our top favorites like Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Charles Halton, Veda Ann Borg and Dan Tobin. The three stars are happily cast, with Myrna Loy moving gracefully into comedy after the rigors of The Best Years of Our Lives.
U.K. release title: Bachelor Knight.
SYNOPSIS: Teenager falls in love with an older man who is forced to pretend that he returns her affections.
NOTES: This somewhat forced little comedy received such a remarkable string of lauda¬tory reviews (from some of the sourest crit¬ics in the business too!) that a nomination for Best Original Screenplay was inevitable. That it won over such competition as Polonsky's Body and Soul, the Kanins' A Double Life, Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Amidei, Franci, Viola and Zavattini's Shoe-Shine is even more astonishing. But that award (and it was the only nomination for an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award he ever received in his Hollywood sojourn) certainly set Sidney Sheldon on the path to bestseller fame and fortune.
Domestic rental gross: an amazing $5,550,000.
This is the film that introduced the famous routine: "You remind me of a man!" - "What man?" - "Man with the power!" - "What power?" - "Power of hoodoo!" - "Hoodoo?" - "You do!" - "Do what?" - "Remind me of a man!" - "What man?" - "Man with the power!"
COMMENT: A very agreeably played comedy. The script is moderately amusing, the direction capable, if undistinguished, and production values are well up to "A" standard.
Of course a lot of the humor at the expense of teenage fashion and mores is now rather dated but those of us with a sense of nostalgia will find that a bonus to the fun. Whether the film will be appreci¬ated - or even understood - by today's drive-in kids is entirely another matter.
Certainly the producer has gathered a delightfully persuasive roster of players - star, character and minor - including some of our top favorites like Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Charles Halton, Veda Ann Borg and Dan Tobin. The three stars are happily cast, with Myrna Loy moving gracefully into comedy after the rigors of The Best Years of Our Lives.