Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
Richard Alexander
- Man at East River
- (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
- Counterman
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Customs Inspector
- (uncredited)
A.S. 'Pop' Byron
- Policeman Writing Down Charges
- (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
- Marriage License Clerk
- (uncredited)
Martin Cichy
- Policeman at Bar
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGuinn 'Big Boy' Williams is in studio records/casting call lists as a cast member, but he did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.
- GoofsAt the 01:11:20 mark the shadow of the boom mic can be seen moving on the wall behind the man on the phone.
- Quotes
Karel Novak: [Enthusiastically] Smell the river!
Sylvia Dennis: [Sarcastically] You take another deep breath like that, and you'll kill yourself.
- ConnectionsReferences Follow the Leader (1930)
- SoundtracksAfter You've Gone
(1918) (uncredited)
Music by Turner Layton and Henry Creamer
Background music at the theater
Featured review
Immigration, that's the name of the game
Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers star in this pleasant romantic comedy about an illegal Czech immigrant and a chorus girl who solve each other's problems during the Great Depression.
Poor Lederer I feel sorry for him because I pictured my own grandparents in the same situation. He's spent every last cent on a ticket to America and then finds that the entry fee is now $200.00 instead of $50.00. I'd probably do what he did, jump ship before it sailed back and enter illegally.
Still if Lederer hadn't met Rogers outside the theater she was working at and she hadn't felt sorry for him he would still have been in a fix. She's barely making ends meet supporting herself and her little brother Jimmy Butler. Then her show closes.
Not to worry it all works out in the end I don't think you have to strain the gray cells too much to figure out how it is done.
During the film Lederer mentions how sick he was during the voyage. My maternal grandmother arrived here before World War I and she was in steerage and was also constantly seasick. The voyage so traumatized her that you could not get her into a rowboat after that. I know exactly how Lederer was feeling.
Some friendly beat cops J. Farrell MacDonald and his sergeant Sidney Toler solve all their problems and take care of a shyster lawyer played by Arthur Hohl who was looking to cash in on Lederer's problems.
Immigration issues in today's America make this film have a returned relevancy. And it's a nice romantic comedy.
Poor Lederer I feel sorry for him because I pictured my own grandparents in the same situation. He's spent every last cent on a ticket to America and then finds that the entry fee is now $200.00 instead of $50.00. I'd probably do what he did, jump ship before it sailed back and enter illegally.
Still if Lederer hadn't met Rogers outside the theater she was working at and she hadn't felt sorry for him he would still have been in a fix. She's barely making ends meet supporting herself and her little brother Jimmy Butler. Then her show closes.
Not to worry it all works out in the end I don't think you have to strain the gray cells too much to figure out how it is done.
During the film Lederer mentions how sick he was during the voyage. My maternal grandmother arrived here before World War I and she was in steerage and was also constantly seasick. The voyage so traumatized her that you could not get her into a rowboat after that. I know exactly how Lederer was feeling.
Some friendly beat cops J. Farrell MacDonald and his sergeant Sidney Toler solve all their problems and take care of a shyster lawyer played by Arthur Hohl who was looking to cash in on Lederer's problems.
Immigration issues in today's America make this film have a returned relevancy. And it's a nice romantic comedy.
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- Feb 24, 2015
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- El embrujo de Manhattan
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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