Dancing in Manhattan

"HE WAS A KING For a Night!"

Dec 14 1944 Approved 1h 0m
Comedy, Crime, Music

In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not know that the money represents the spoils of a blackmailer's scheme.

Plot

Manhattan garbage-truck driver, Eddie Martin (Fred Brady) finds $5,000 in a bag in a high-price restaurant garbage can and he and his sweetheart Julie Connors (Jeff Donnell) spend it all on a night-on-the-town and expensive new clothes and other items they never dreamed of having. Complications arise when the money turns out to be extortion money belonging to a blackmailer/gangster named Steve Crawford (William Wright.) Further complications ensue when the police show up asking noisy questions of Eddie and Julie as to why they have marked-money set up by the police department to trap the blackmailer.

Written by

Erna Lazarus

Directed by

Henry Levin

Cast

Frederick Brady, Jeff Donnell, William Wright

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
60
Average Rating
5.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA