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Synopsis: Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. 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 where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.
Director(s): Melville Shavelson
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
APPROVED
Year:
1959
117 min
138 Views


No. You ever been in

a speakeasy before?

Oh, come on.

I've been in dozens of them.

Here's mud in your eye.

Yeah.

We got a real live one here.

Have some more tea, plowboy.

It just..."Plowboy"?

I'll show you "plowboy."

Well, here's some more mud.

Wood alcohol. I've gone blind!

Oh, Red. They just turned out the lights.

That's all.

I was only kidding.

Don't you think I know that?

No.

- Red, how about that bugle?

- Like the music?

Next to my father, that's the greatest

trumpet I ever heard in my whole life.

We'll let you drink to that.

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey

Won't you come home?

I'm feeling all alone

I'll do the cooking, darling

I'll pay the rent

I know I've done you wrong

Remember that rainy eve

That I drove you out

With nothing but a fine-tooth comb?

I know I'm to blame

Well, ain't that a shame

Bill Bailey,

won't you please come home

Yes, won't you come home, Bill Bailey

Won't you come home

I'm feeling all alone

Here you go, Red.

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey

Won't you come home

I'm gonna love you long

It's all right, Mac.

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey

Won't you come home, Bill Bailey

With nothing but a fine-tooth comb

I know I'm to blame

Ain't that a shame

Bill Bailey,

won't you please come home

Oh, he's changing weapons.

Where's my horn?

Red. Red, don't start that.

They'll blow you right out of the room.

One... One more chorus, boys, huh?

One... One... One...

Would you play

one more chorus, please?

What can I do for you?

Well, I... I'd like to show you

how to really play this thing.

You look a little shaky there, son.

You better sit this one out.

We'll get to the volunteers later.

Yeah, well, I...

You don't believe I can play this, huh?

Well, I'd like to inform you

about one information of piece of fact...

that I happen to be

the second-greatest cornet player...

- in Ogden, Utah.

- North Ogden or South Ogden?

You don't think that's much, do you?

Well, my father happens to live there...

and he's the greatest cornet player

in the whole world. Ask anybody.

If he ain't Gabriel,

you're in trouble. Play it.

- Where's the arrangement?

- Arrangement?

Man, nobody write down Dixieland.

You just let it happen.

Well, suppose it happens great one...

Suppose it happens great one time...

and you'd like it to happen exactly

the same way. What do you do then?

Just like tapping a nightingale

on the shoulder, saying:

"How's that again, Dicky-bird?"

Well, I write it down.

I've been writing it down

since I was 13 years old.

Here, I've got it right here.

Here's the drum part right there.

Would you just hold this here

right there? Thank you very much.

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