Big Brown Eyes
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Big Brown Eyes is a 1936 American romantic comedy crime film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Cary Grant, Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon.[1] It was produced by Walter Wanger and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
Police officer Danny Barr is chasing jewel robbers. His girlfriend, Eve Fallon, is initially working as a manicurist, but quickly takes a job as a reporter assisting in the effort against the jewel thieves. Fallon and Barr become disgusted when one jewel gang member is acquitted after killing a baby in Central Park, and both leave their jobs. Soon thereafter, Fallon gets a lucky break while giving a manicure and the case is solved.
Cast
- Cary Grant as Det. Sgt. Danny Barr
- Joan Bennett as Eve Fallon
- Walter Pidgeon as Richard Morey
- Lloyd Nolan as Russ Cortig
- Alan Baxter as Cary Butler
- Marjorie Gateson as Mrs. Chesley Cole
- Isabel Jewell as Bessie Blair
- Douglas Fowley as Benjamin 'Benny' Battle
- Henry Brandon as Don Butler
- Joe Sawyer as Jack Scully
Reception
The film recorded a loss of $14,645.[2] Critics have regarded it as "disposable"[3] and "inconsequential"[4] with "shoddy writing and generally uninspired performances."[5]
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a positive review, characterizing it as "a fast well-directed and quite unsentimental gangster film, pleasantly free from emotion".[6]
More recent writers have been kinder to the film. Grant biographer Scott Eyman called it an "unheralded gem in Grant's catalogue, a snappy comedy-drama [...] a cheerfully disreputable pre-Code film unaccountably made after the Code, with speedy cross-talk that prefigures His Girl Friday."[7] Writing for The New Yorker, Richard Brody hailed the film's "cocksure grifters and workaday wiseacres who dish out sharp-edged patter—none more than Grant and Bennett, whose gibing often resembles quasi-Beckettian doubletalk. Here, Grant offers early flashes of the brash, suave, and intricate antics on which his enduring comedic persona is based."[8]
References
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External links
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- 1930s American films
- 1930s crime comedy films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1936 comedy films
- 1936 films
- American black-and-white films
- American crime comedy films
- American detective films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films directed by Raoul Walsh
- Films produced by Walter Wanger
- Films scored by Gerard Carbonara
- Films set in New York City
- Paramount Pictures films
- Ventriloquism
- English-language crime comedy films