It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays an ace ballplayer who was disgraced while still in college and is only able to secure work as a team manager. He takes charge of an unnamed Brooklyn team and whips in into a World Series contender. The players resent Nolan's drill-sergeant tactics, and when Nolan falls in love with the pretty owner of the team (Carole Landis), the players use this as an excuse to circulate a petition demanding Nolan's ouster. The manager pays no attention to the petition and leads his team to a league pennant, finding time along the way to help out a trouble-prone young ballplayer (George Holmes) on the verge of throwing away his career. Bolstered by film clips of actual Dodgers games (including one in which an anxious fan jumps out of the stands and attacks the umpire), It Happened in Flatbush is an enjoyable second-feature effort. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Lloyd Nolan - Frank Maguire
- Sara Allgood - Mrs. McAvoy
- Robert Armstrong - Danny Mitchell
- George Holmes - Roy Anderson
- Joseph Allen, Jr. - Walter Rogers
- Roger Imhof - Maguire
- LeRoy Mason - Scott
- Dale Van Sickel - Stevenson
- Robert E. Homans - Collins
- Vivian Blaine
- Carole Landis - Kathryn Baker
- William Frawley - Sam Sloan
- Jane Darwell - Mrs. Maguire
- Scotty Beckett - Squint
- James Burke - Shaunnessy
- Matt McHugh - O'Doul
- Pat Flaherty - O'Hara
- Jed Prouty - Judge
- Mary Gordon - Mrs. Collins
- Director(s):
- Ray McCarey
- Writer(s):
- Harold Buchman, Lee Loeb
- Producer(s):
- Walter Morosco
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