The Lemon Drop Kid
by Frank Tashlin, Sidney Lanfield
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Actor: Andrea King, Bob Hope, Jane Darwell, Lloyd Nolan, Marilyn MaxwellDirector: Frank Tashlin, Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Frank Tashlin
Writer: Damon Runyon
Writer: Edmund Beloin
Writer: Edmund L. Hartmann
Writer: Irving Elinson
Writer: Robert O'Brien
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bci / Eclipse
Movie Reviews of The Lemon Drop Kid
Movie Review: Favorite Christmas Movie but I watch it anytime I need a laugh
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of my favorite movies, my favorite Christmas movie, possibly my favorite Bob Hope movie.
I found it several years ago for $4.99 in a bargain bin, went home and watched it, and immediately went back to the store to buy several more copies to give as gifts.
In this rapid-fire-dialogue movie based on a Damon Runyon story, we first see the Kid at a Florida race track, using a con on people to spread his chances of winning dough. After mistakenly duping a mobster's girlfriend ("is daddy angry?"), the Kid negotiates a 30-day window for him to drum up the money he owes. He flees to New York, where he hooks up with an ex-girlfriend (Marilyn Maxwell as Brainy Baxter) and an "old doll" (Jane Darwell as Nellie Thursday) being evicted from her home. After seeing all the money the corner Santas rake into their kettles with their bell-ringing, the Kid creates a charity for an Old Dolls Home, and gets some of his old cronies to help him with the fundraising. Of course, things go awry, but along the way, the movie is filled with laugh-out-loud scenes (I'm thinking of the passionate kiss in the garden while the Kid tries to replace a statue's head, and the entire last part of the film where the Kid goes undercover) and some very sweet scenes between the rough characters.
In this film, some of Hope's best scenes are where there is no dialogue, but only the comic timing genius of Hope.
To top it off, it has the best version ever of "Silver Bells," and a lovely duet with Hope and Maxwell as they put the old dolls to bed with the song "It Doesn't Cost a Dime to Dream." You'll find yourself humming or singing it the next day.
The Lemon Drop Kid is reminiscent of Guys and Dolls, and Sorrowful Jones, both also inspired by Damon Runyon's storeis.
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