... and that's too bad because this film isn't shown much. It is classic Depression era Warner Brothers, with a meet cute scene involving two hungry homeless people - Joan Blondell and Wallace Ford - and a couple of sizzling sausages that are purloined by Blondell. They meet while eating the sausages.
I guess it is called "Central Park" because it has a little bit of everything, and the big scenes are set in Central Park. Blondell and Ford get in trouble because they really want jobs and unknowingly get mixed up with some gangsters' robbery plans in pursuit of said employment. Guy Kibbee has a poignant role as a cop who is going blind but just has to stay on the job a short while longer without being outed so he can retire and get his pension. He has an easy beat after all - Central Park. What could happen?
Well, there is an insane guy - John Wray always played such parts well, even if exaggerated - who busts loose from a mental hospital and locks a zookeeper he perceives as mean to the animals in the lion cage of the Central Park Zoo. Then the lion gets set free, and like in an Irwin Allen film, "The Beasts are in the Street". And suddenly Kibbee's blindness is highly visible.
Very fast moving with great dialogue and well worth your time if you can ever find it.
I guess it is called "Central Park" because it has a little bit of everything, and the big scenes are set in Central Park. Blondell and Ford get in trouble because they really want jobs and unknowingly get mixed up with some gangsters' robbery plans in pursuit of said employment. Guy Kibbee has a poignant role as a cop who is going blind but just has to stay on the job a short while longer without being outed so he can retire and get his pension. He has an easy beat after all - Central Park. What could happen?
Well, there is an insane guy - John Wray always played such parts well, even if exaggerated - who busts loose from a mental hospital and locks a zookeeper he perceives as mean to the animals in the lion cage of the Central Park Zoo. Then the lion gets set free, and like in an Irwin Allen film, "The Beasts are in the Street". And suddenly Kibbee's blindness is highly visible.
Very fast moving with great dialogue and well worth your time if you can ever find it.