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Sorry, this movie sucks

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The first must-see film of the year.

Ladies man and gangster Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is shot by the police but manages to escape, driving into the country before passing out. He's found and taken in by a kindly family. They nurse Lucky back to health thinking he was the innocent victim of a gangster shoot-out. Gradually Lucky starts to fall for the pretty daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) and has second thoughts about his criminal ways.Montgomery is at his charming best here. Even when he's bad, you can't help but like him. Lovely O'Sullivan was no stranger to taming wild men in films, obviously. She's one of the most likable actresses from the '30s and movies like this show why. Whitford Kane and Elizabeth Patterson are terrific as Maureen's pure, salt-of-the-earth parents. Mickey Rooney is fun as their son. Edward Arnold is great as the tough detective out to get Lucky (ha!). Muriel Evans is extremely sexy in her small part as nightclub singer Baby. Va-va-va-voom! It's a funny, sentimental film with a little bit of edge and a great cast. Give it a shot.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY is the injured gangster being sheltered by a farm family with a lovely daughter (MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN) who quickly responds to his tough guy charm. MICKEY ROONEY is the ornery little brother continually pestering everybody and declaring "Don't call me Willie!" Montgomery gradually reforms after his initial discomfort with country life. ("Hurry up and lay that egg!"). The predictable plot is light-hearted nonsense but enjoyable for the performances of Montgomery and O'Sullivan who seem to be enjoying their bucolic roles that have them feeding chickens, milking cows and collecting eggs. It's a pleasant little film, directed in workmanlike style by Woody Van Dyke.Maureen O'Sullivan looks radiant and has seldom been seen to better advantage and Robert Montgomery makes the most of his reformed gangster role.As a film, it's nothing too special, but it does pass the time pleasantly thanks to the warm chemistry between its two stars. Too bad MGM couldn't find better future material for Maureen, who is at her loveliest in this outing. I've never been a big Robert Montgomery fan, but he does give one of his more appealing performances here.

Robert Montgomery plays a gangster hiding out on a farm in "Hide-Out," a 1934 film also starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson, Whitford Kane, and Mickey Rooney. With the police after him, Lucky Wilson takes off but ends up shot and unconscious. He is then found by a farmer Miller (Kane) who takes him home. There, Lucky, now calling himself by his real name, Jonathan, meets a normal American family, including an above-normal looking Pauline (Maureen O'Sullivan), who is the daughter of the house. Jonathan stretches out his recovery and begins to enjoy the idyllic life of milking cows, feeding chickens, romancing Pauline, and being sort of a big brother to her younger sibling Willie (Mickey Rooney).This is a sweet film with nothing special to recommend it except the beautiful young O'Sullivan and an amusing performance by Montgomery. In one of the best scenes, he sits at a ringside table and asks a singer out - while she's singing - and she answers him under her breath during short orchestral interludes.The end seems a little abrupt, but this is a pleasant film. If Mrs. Miller looks familiar, she was Mrs. Trumbull, the neighbor who babysat Little Ricky on "I Love Lucy."

W.S Van Dyke came from a documentary background (Eskimo and some stuff with Robert Flaherty) and it shows in some of the barnyard scenes that were obviously improvised. Also, at the beginning there are nightclub scenes filmed with a shimmering effect that is truly stunning. The actors drip with honest charm while going through the motions demanded by the cliched plot.