{"id":12930,"date":"2010-10-29T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12930"},"modified":"2020-12-29T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:45:33","slug":"milky-way-the-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12930","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way, The (1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m just as surprised as you are &#8212; I could swear I missed him!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-715x1024.png 715w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-89x128.png 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-768x1100.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster-188x270.png 188w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Milky-Way-Poster.png 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a timid milkman (Harold Lloyd) accidentally knocks out a prize fighter (William Gargan), a corrupt manager (Adolph Menjou) hires him for a series of fixed fights, and he soon develops an enormous ego &#8212; much to the distress of his new girlfriend (Dorothy Wilson) and his sister (Helen Mack).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adolph Menjou Films<\/li>\n<li>Boxing<\/li>\n<li>Corruption<\/li>\n<li>Harold Lloyd Films<\/li>\n<li>Leo McCarey Films<\/li>\n<li>Play Adaptations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nWidely considered the best of Harold Lloyd&#8217;s talkies, this enjoyable adaptation of Lynn Root and Harry Clork&#8217;s Broadway play offers Lloyd a plum opportunity to further <em>milk<\/em> (sorry) his iconic comedic persona as a bespectacled, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harold_Lloyd\">&#8220;resourceful, success-seeking go-getter&#8221;<\/a>. The storyline is rather silly, but it does allow us to watch Lloyd engaging in plenty of delightful pseudo-boxing &#8212; including a classic scene in which he teaches said moves to an enthused society woman (Marjorie Gateson).  Dorothy Wilson is appropriately sweet and unassuming as Lloyd&#8217;s new girlfriend, and Adolph Menjou is perfectly cast as Lloyd&#8217;s sleazy new manager. Somewhat notoriously, <em>The Milky Way<\/em> almost didn&#8217;t survive for modern audiences to enjoy: when producer Samuel Goldwyn decided to remake the film with Danny Kaye in 1946 (as <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12937\"><em>The Kid From Brooklyn<\/em><\/a>), he ordered all negatives of the original to be burned; fortunately, Lloyd had his own pristine copy squirreled away, and the rest is history. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harold Lloyd as Burleigh Sullivan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/milky-way-lloyd2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/milky-way-lloyd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12932\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Burleigh teaching a society woman how to &#8220;dance&#8221; in the ring<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/milky-way-lloyd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/milky-way-lloyd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12934\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s certainly recommended, and a definite must for Lloyd fans. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027969\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9F00E2D9123FEE3BBC4E51DFB566838D629EDE\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/83494\/the-milky-way#articles-reviews?articleId=23988\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/movie\/the-milky-way-v32684\/review\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just as surprised as you are &#8212; I could swear I missed him!&#8221; Synopsis: When a timid milkman (Harold Lloyd) accidentally knocks out a prize fighter (William Gargan), a corrupt manager (Adolph Menjou) hires him for a series of fixed fights, and he soon develops an enormous ego &#8212; much to the distress of his new girlfriend (Dorothy Wilson) and his sister (Helen Mack). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Adolph Menjou Films Boxing Corruption Harold Lloyd Films Leo McCarey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12930\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60398,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions\/60398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}