Rating: NR
Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 05/13/2008
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter and extended applause.
Frank Sinatra stars as ex-GI Danny Webson Miller, who makes a sentimental journey to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. Danny moves in with an old pal, high school janitor Nick Lombardi (
Jimmy Durante), then inaugurates a romance with music teacher Anne Fielding. He also resolves to turn stuffy uptowner Jamie Shelgrave (
Peter Lawford) into a true "son of Flatbush." The plot thickens when Jamie himself falls for Anne and when Danny tries to secure a scholarship for Anne's prize pupil, Nick's granddaughter Rae (
Marcy McGuire). Since
MGM was giving
Peter Lawford the big build-up, it is Jamie who ultimately wins Anne's heart, but Danny finds consolation with an old "goil friend" (
Gloria Grahame). Musical highlights include
Frank Sinatra and
Jimmy Durante's imitations of one another in
"The Song's Gotta Come From the Heart" and
Sinatra's rendition of the standard-to-be
"Time After Time".
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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