Underplayed Gems

Brooklyn Orchid (1942)

Brooklyn Orchid poster
Directed by
Kurt Neumann
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two friends from Brooklyn run a taxi business and get into a series of comedic mishaps. Their adventures involve a runaway heiress and a mix-up over a valuable orchid.

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What happens

Brooklyn Orchid is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Earle Snell and Clarence Marks that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. The film stars William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Grace Bradley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Florine McKinney and Leonid Kinskey. The film was released on January 31, 1942, by United Artists. This was the first of the so-called Taxi Comedies series, which featured Bendix, Sawyer, and Bradley playing the same characters. The latter two films were The McGuerins from Brooklyn and Taxi, Mister. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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