The Milky Way (1936 film)
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| Directed by | Leo McCarey |
| Produced by | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
| Written by | Grover Jones Frank Butler Richard Connell based on the play of the same name |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd Adolphe Menjou Veree Teasdale Helen Mack Lionel Stander |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 7, 1936 |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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The Milky Way is a 1936 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
An example of the popular screwball comedy genre of the time, and critically Harold Lloyd's most successful talkie, it tells the story of a Brooklyn milkman who becomes middleweight boxing champion.
Plot
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) becomes involved in a brawl which ends up with Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion being knocked out cold (he never in fact threw a punch; he merely ducked to get out of the way of a punch which brought the champ down).
McFarland's boss, the crooked Gabby Sloan (Adolphe Menjou), decides to promote Sullivan in a series of fixed fights that will culminate in him being knocked out in a real fight with McFarland. Against all the odds, Sullivan triumphs and becomes world champion.
Trivia
- When producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights for the property in the mid-1940s for his remake, The Kid from Brooklyn (with Danny Kaye in the lead role), he also bought the original negative and almost all existing prints, and destroyed them.
| Feature films starring Harold Lloyd |
Silent: A Sailor-Made Man (1921) • Grandma's Boy (1922) • Doctor Jack (1922) • Safety Last! (1923) • Why Worry? (1923) • Girl Shy (1924) • Hot Water (1924) • The Freshman (1925) • For Heaven's Sake (1926) • The Kid Brother (1927) • Speedy (1928) • Welcome Danger (1929, released 2005) |
Sound: Welcome Danger (1929) • Feet First (1930) • Movie Crazy (1932) • The Cat's-Paw (1934) • The Milky Way (1936) • Professor Beware (1938) • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) |
Categories
1936 films | American films | Boxing films | Comedy films | Black and white films