![]() ![]() Things go differently this time when Mac shelters there a young down-on-his-luck free-loader named Jim (Don DeFore), whom he meets on a park bench after he was evicted from his apartment building that will no longer exist. O’Connor (Charles Ruggles), the second richest man in the country, leaves his Fifth Avenue mansion until springtime to go south, Aloysius “Mac” McKeever (Victor Moore), a harmless homeless man, moves in and lives like a king until O’Connor’s return. But the directing seems strained for this lightweight box office hit.Īs the plot goes, for the last three winters when millionaire businessman Michael J. ![]() It’s satisfactorily written by the team of writers Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani, and Everett Freeman. The so-so veteran studio director Roy Del Ruth (“Red Light”/”The West Point Story”) dutifully directs this overlong pic that’s set during the Christmas season and meant to be a poignant humanist and humorous holiday film. The humor connected with this feel good Capra humanistic comedy, a farce, revolves around that the title refers to New York City’s Fifth Avenue as the “richest avenue in the world.” (Whitey Temple), Dorothea Kent (Margie Temple), Grant Mitchell (Farrow) Runtime: 115 MPAA Rating: NR producer Roy Del Ruth: Allied Artists/Monogram/Warner Bros. Heermance music: Edward Ward cast: Charles Ruggles(Mike O’Connor), Victor Moore (Aloysius “Mac” McKeever), Don DeFore (Jim), Gale Storm (Trudy), Ann Harding (Mary O’Connor), Edward Brophy (Patrolman Cecil Felton), Edward Ryan (Hank) Alan Hale Jr. (director: Roy Del Ruth screenwriters: Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani, Everett Freeman cinematographer: Henry Sharp editor: Richard V. ![]()
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