So This Is New York

So This Is New York (1948)

ALL THE EXCITEMENT and HEART-BREAK of BIG-TOWN GUYS and GALS ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY!

A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.

Date of release
1948-06-01
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Richard Fleischer

Casting

Interesting facts

So This Is New York is a 1948 American satirical comedy film starring Henry Morgan and directed by Richard Fleischer. The cynically sophisticated screenplay was written by Carl Foreman and Herbert Baker from the 1920 novel The Big Town by Ring Lardner; Foreman was blacklisted soon after. It remains the only film in which Morgan plays the leading role, and the material was tailored to showcase the cynical persona he had developed for his radio show.

Production

Stanley Kramer and Carl Foreman borrowed Richard Fleischer from RKO after they saw his debut feature, Child of Divorce.

The film was made on a small budget, "a little more than $600,000 ... cobbled together from several small-time non-Hollywood investors, including a dry goods salesman and a lettuce grower".

So This Is New York was one of the first Hollywood movies to use the technique of freezing action on the screen while the narrator, Henry Morgan, spoke about what the viewer was seeing. One scene has Ernie Finch (Morgan) entering a taxi as a cabbie barks at him in a thick Bronx accent, "Awrite - where to, Mac?" Subtitles appear on the screen translating, "Where may I take you, sir?"

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