The Kid from Brooklyn

Danny Kaye's The Kid From Brooklyn is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way (1936), with music and Technicolor added to the proceedings. Kaye is cast as timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan, who through a fluke knocks out prizefighting champion Speed McFarlane (Steve Cochran). ...more

As with many of the cinema's other unique comics, Danny Kaye was a difficult personality around which to build a film. Like many of his films, The Kid From Brooklyn is certainly entertaining; also like many of his films, it isn't completely satisfying, although it has a number of good moments. The screenplay is the main culprit; the premise is ridiculous and thus the film needs especially witty and diverting dialogue and situations to distract from this basic flaw. It doesn't get it. Nor is it ...more