• 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h
Dancing in Manhattan

Summary 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. View more details

  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h

Dancing in Manhattan

Directed : Henry Levin

Written : Erna Lazarus

Stars : Jeff Donnell William Wright Ann Savage Frederick Brady

All cast & crew

5.3

Details

Genres : Comedy Crime Romance Film-Noir Music

Release date : Dec 13, 1944

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Columbia Pictures

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Crime Romance Film-Noir Music

Release date : Dec 13, 1944

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Columbia Pictures

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Ann Savage in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady, Jeff Donnell, Ann Savage, and William Wright in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady and Jeff Donnell in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady, Jeff Donnell, Ann Savage, and William Wright in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady and Jeff Donnell in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady, Jeff Donnell, and William Wright in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady and Jeff Donnell in Dancing in Manhattan (1944) Frederick Brady and Jeff Donnell in Dancing in Manhattan (1944)
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