Musical comedy starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. A mild-mannered milkman accidentally knocks out a world boxing champion during an incident outside a nightclub. The boxer's manager decides to turn the milkman into a fighter so he can arrange a lucrative title fight against the champion.
Based on Harold Lloyd's 1936 comedy The Milky Way, this is one of Danny Kaye's best vehicles, allowing the versatile comedian to strut his stuff as the milkman who becomes a boxing champ. If you're not a Kaye fan, this may be the movie, along with, perhaps, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, that will make you change your mind, since it's relatively free of the sentimentality that mars so much of Kaye's later work. Producer Samuel Goldwyn surrounds his star with glamour (Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen), rich 1940s Technicolor and terrific character support (Fay Bainter, Eve Arden), plus some super songs; the result is very pleasing.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Burleigh Sullivan | Danny Kaye |
| Polly Pringle | Virginia Mayo |
| Susie Sullivan | Vera-Ellen |
| Gabby Sloan | Walter Abel |
| Ann Westley | Eve Arden |
| Speed Macfarlane | Steve Cochran |
| Spider Schultz | Lionel Stander |
| Mrs E Winthrop Lemoyne | Fay Bainter |
| Wilbur Austin | Clarence Kolb |
| Photographer | Victor Cutler |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Norman Z McLeod |
