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The Five Pennies

The Five Pennies

1959
Drama, Biography
1h 57m
Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles. As Dorothy learns of her father's musical past, he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out. (imdb)
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The Five Pennies

1959
Drama, Biography
1h 57m
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Avg Percentile 52.7% from 26 total ratings

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Rated 13 Sep 2019
28
15th
The sort of movie where the two leads meet, dislike each other, and fall in love all in the first scene, and are married by the second scene, and where the plot is advanced by showing newspaper headlines that shout stuff that would simply never be news (The Five Pennies Play College Dances!). Gag. Worthwhile only for when Louis Armstrong shows up, and for Red Nichols fans (if any, course).

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