LADY AND GENT

DIRECTED BY STEPHEN ROBERTS
PARAMOUNT PICTURES

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INFORMATION IMDb

Plot Summary
Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes over confident.
Later Buzz is a worn out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.
Summary written by Ed Stephan

Full Cast
George Bancroft .... Stag Bailey
Wynne Gibson .... Puff Rogers
Charles Starrett .... Ted Streaver
James Gleason .... Pin Streaver
John Wayne .... Buzz Kinney
Morgan Wallace .... Cash Enright
James Crane .... McSweeley
William Halligan .... Doc Hayes
Billy Butts .... Ted (aged 9)
Joyce Compton .... Betty
Frank McGlynn Sr. .... Principal
Charley Grapewin .... Grocer (as Charles Grapewin)
Lew Kelly .... Coroner
Syd Saylor .... Joe
Russ Powell .... 2nd Bartender
Frank Darien .... Jim
Hal Price .... 1st Bartender
Arthur S. Byron .... Judge (as A.S. Byron)
John Beck .... Workman
Tom Kennedy .... Small Arena Fighter
Frank Dawson .... Minister
Fred Wallace .... Watchman (uncredited)

Writing Credits
Grover Jones writer
William Slavens McNutt writer

Original Music
John Leipold (uncredited)

Cinematography
Harry Fischbeck

Trivia
* One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949,
which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution,
and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Hi,
Another rarity,featuring, future cowboy star, Charles Starett.
Paramount hired Duke on a freelance basis, for a supporting role as,
a young professional, prizefighter, but his screen time was less than 6 minutes.
However, this film was much better, than the ones he had been making at Columbia,
and represented a step, back into the major league, not bad for an actor,
currently making serials, for Mascot.
Author: Arne Andersen


This is very tedious early talkie that seems to go on forever.
The direction takes its cue from George Bancroft's painfully slow line delivery and is sluggish at best.
He plays Stag Bailey, a punk fighter, who loses his last match to up and coming Buzz Kinney (an early performance by John Wayne).
When his manager is killed in a holdup attempt to win money lost on the fight
, Stag and his girlfriend, Singer/Nightclub owner,
Puff Rogers (Wynne Gibson) find that they have inherited a ten year old boy, the son of the manager.
They do the decent thing and set up housekeeping, growing old and raising the boy,
ultimately turning him away from a desire to make quick cash in the ring.
The only thing of interest here is Wynne Gibson, a marvelous comic actress,
who does a wonderful job with Puff, balancing the wisecracks with the pathos of aging.
The Story earned an Oscar nom but isn't much of anything, in fact owing a bit to 1930's STREET OF CHANCE in its storyline.
This is an extremely rare film and even rarer on video.
John Wayne has little to do and practically no dialogue but looks promising in this early film (one of eleven he would make that year).

Hi

I wonder how many people have actually seen the picture. In every review I think I have read, only one gives George Bancroft's character his proper name of Slag rather than Stag. As soon as I heard it mentioned and bearing in mind that my sound copy is bad, the name Slag in un-missable. Fred Landesman in his review also mentions the name Slag rather than Stag.




Regards

Arthur