Kid Galahad

Viewed December 1, 2019.

It's like a Joe E. Brown movie only with actual actors who are stuck in a crap script.

There are lots of excellent acting in this movie but the real emotions struggle press itself out of this well told story. Edward G. Robinson, the man is the symbol of the high talker. Humphrey Bogart looks dangerous, but it's not his greatest gangster role. Wayne Morris puts on the naive pretty boy act perfectly! Jane Bryan had a good personality. Bette Davis was so expressive here! Club singer with a good personality. Taking life as it comes and reacts honestly accordingly. She was magnetizing.

Not as well known as some of his pictures, Robinson shows why he was great in this: he was the gangster who still had a conscience. Bette Davis is just as good in a role with real depth.

Edward G. Robinson puts in another impressive performance in this boxing film. Bette Davis is also very good and Wayne Morris does a fine job. The story revolves around the corruption of boxing and it is very entertaining.

Three stars of Warner Bros meets in this a little too melodramatic, but still entertaining film. Besides the three stars, Wayne Morris came as a great surprise. He pulled really good role of a naive country bumpkin. The plot is really cliche ridden, but the solid directing by Curtiz pulls this film above most of gangster dramas of the 40's.