It Happened on 5th Avenue
1947, Holiday/Comedy, 1h 55m
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While rich businessman Mike O'Connor (Charles Ruggles) resides in Virginia, his luxury townhouse in New York City appears vacant. However, in reality, drifter Aloysius "Mac" McKeever (Victor Moore) has been staying there. Mac invites Jim (Don DeFore), an unemployed veteran who has just been evicted from a building owned by O'Connor, to stay at the house without revealing he's squatting. When O'Connor's daughter, Trudy (Gale Storm), shows up as well, she falls for Jim and tries to help him.
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Genre: Holiday, Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Roy Del Ruth
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Producer: Roy Del Ruth
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Writer: Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani, Everett Freeman
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures
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"Peace on earth, goodwill towards men" is the gist of this obvious Yuletide fable, wherein one of the most disadvantaged, embodied by a genial yet aggravating Victor Moore, has heartwarming, life-changing advice for one of the most privileged, embodied by wonderfully exasperated Charlie Ruggles. Although I disliked the blatantly socialist underlining message ("all of our problems would be solved if the rich just gave us all money"), and the velvet hammer with which it is pow-pow-pounded home, I was won over by the easygoing performances of the leads. Nice, too, is how the secondary cast is made up of many who would become 50's and 60's television mainstays, heightening recognition acceptance.
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