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Very disappointing...

Sadly Over-hyped

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Overbearingly annoying and motherly Jessie Busley (Nora) and irritatingly unfunny and blustering Una O'Connor (Maggie) run a boarding house of out of work people of no particular talent such as tiresome magician Felix Bressart (The Great Boldini) and his stupid dog that only seems to have one trick. I guess it's meant to be cute. That's already too many comedy characters for one film, but, regrettably there are more. Anyway, into this mix comes nightclub entertainer Ann Sheridan (Sarah Jane), who is also a pain in the arse with her energetic, whirlwind entrance into the film. Composer Jeffrey Lynn (Tommy) also rocks up at the house in order to shelter gangster Humphrey Bogart (Chips Maguire/Grasselli) and Lynn and Sheridan start to make sweet music together. Can they romance each other and get a happy ending? Bogart is the best thing about this film and he has genuinely funny moments that will get you laughing. Unfortunately, he is more than offset by several comedy characters that won't have you laughing. Shame. A scene that stands out is when the group of non-talented wannabes are giving a performance to the residents of the boarding-house and the poet recites his rubbish poem. Bogart's reactions are hilarious. As they are when he is introduced to his room full of stuffed animals. But goodness me, that motherly Busley woman is annoying. Will Bogart shoot her? Sheridan is okay, nothing special while Lynn is particularly unlikable. Will Bogart shoot him for being a bit of a dullard? The film contains some entertaining and some weird musical numbers which, along with Bogart's performance, elevate this film into the okay category. But all those blasted annoying characters and that terribly contrived ending………oh please……..corny stuff.

Humphrey Bogart plays 'Mr. Grasselli'--a man who is sick and living in a rooming house while supposedly recuperating. In reality, he's Chips Maguire-a wanted thug who is hiding from the law. This sort of role is hardly surprising for Bogart in 1940, as he'd been playing gangsters in a variety of Warner Brothers films during the last few years. What is surprising, though, is that this film is a light comedy--with Bogie playing a less menacing sort of thug. While it's not a great film, considering that he'd been playing so many mobsters , it was nice to see a bit of a change.Despite Maguire wanting to remain alone in his room all the time, the two nice old ladies who run the place urge him to come out and meet the other tenants. Eventually, he slowly emerges and begins socializing--and makes friends with the harmless residents and vice-versa. One of them, Ann Sheridan, however, knows who he is and you'd expect her to turn him in to the police. However, she doesn't and what she and this thug have in mind is something you'll need to see for yourself. It's all a little ridiculous, but also great fun.With such residents as Felix Bressart, Una O'Connor (in one of her more restrained roles)and Zasu Pitts, the movie has a lot of colorful characters and give the film a certain charm and likability. This, combined with an unusual script make this film well worth seeing--especially people who love classic Hollywood or the films of Bogart.

It All Came True (1940) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Comedy from Warner has a piano player (Jeffrey Lynn) taking his gangster boss (Humphrey Bogart) back to his mother's boarding house and hiding him there after killing a witness. The gangster goes unrecognized until a friend (Ann Sheridan) of the piano player notices him. The three leads and the strong supporting cast make this film a lot better than it really has the right to be. The movie is a rather mixed bag with the first half really dragging before finally picking up during the final act. The film finally comes to life when the old women (Una O'Connor, Jessie Busley) are about to be kicked out of their boarding house so Bogart decides to turn it into a nightclub to earn some extra cash. Zasu Pitts really steals the film as one of the tenant who can't hold her liquor and is always in fear that the gangster is going to do harm to her. Sheridan comes off pretty good in the lead role and does more for her character than the screenplay does. Sheridan is quite energetic throughout and matches wits well against Bogart who provides some nice comic touches. O'Connor gets some of her typical laughs as does John Litel. This movie is certainly far from a classic due to the mixed screenplay but fans of the cast members should find enough her to make one viewer worth it.

It All Came True finds Humphrey Bogart as a gangster on the lam from killing a police stoolie and using a gun that was registered to club piano player Jeffrey Lynn to do the deed. With the stoolie probably telling the cops about his regular hideouts, Bogart has Jeffrey Lynn under a blackmail threat about the weapon hide him in a boarding house that is run jointly by Lynn's mother Jessie Burley and Una O'Connor who is the mother of Ann Sheridan.Sheridan and Lynn were childhood sweethearts, she's a chorus girl, he's an aspiring composer and the Moms hoped that they'll be joint grandmothers some day. Bogart is hiding under an assumed name at the boardinghouse, but Sheridan recognizes him.Perhaps the fact that he's away from the police spotlight, fooling them even temporarily makes Bogart fall under the charms of the place which is a theatrical boardinghouse. O'Connor and Burley wax nostalgic about the Gay Nineties and Bogart kind of does also. Bear in mind that this was probably when he was a kid in the film.It All Came True is the kind of film that would have been better suited to James Cagney. In fact he did several fine nostalgic type films in his career like Frisco Kid, Johnny Come Lately, Strawberry Blonde, and The Time Of Your Life. I'm betting this was a property that Warner Brothers developed for Cagney, but for some reason or other Cagney couldn't do it.Sheridan's feet are firmly in the 20th century however, she delivers a few zingers that were quite up to date for the audience. Until Rita Hayworth was established, Ann was Hollywood's number one redhead and she had a bit more wit in her scripts than Rita got at Columbia. Maybe with Cagney in the lead and someone like Frank Capra directing and someone like Damon Runyon doing the screenplay, It All Came True could have been a real classic. It's an amusing comedy as it is with Ann Sheridan at her career height and Humphrey Bogart on the crest of becoming a legend.