Little Old New York (1940)
- Directed by
- Henry King
- Genre
- drama film, biographical film, comedy drama, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In early 1800s New York, an engineer struggles to get funding and support to build the first working steamboat. A woman helps him pursue his dream against opposition from skeptics and rivals.
periodearnestmild tensionromanticbittersweetslow-burnseriocomicnostalgic
What happens
Little Old New York is a 1940 American black-and-white historical drama from 20th Century Fox, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Henry King, that stars Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, and Richard Greene. The film is based on a play by Rida Johnson Young, which opened on Broadway on September 8, 1920, and starred Genevieve Tobin, Douglas Wood, and Donald Meek. It was previously adapted into a 1923 film starring Marion Davies. Little Old New York tells the story of the hardships of the engineer Robert Fulton in financing and building the first successful steam-powered ship in America, which would revolutionize river transportation and then ocean commerce around the world. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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