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1931 Directed by David Butler

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

Janet Gaynor El Brendel Charles Farrell Raul Roulien Lawrence O'Sullivan Manya Roberti Virginia Cherrill Olive Tell Mischa Auer Marvine Maazel Bill Elliott Crauford Kent Bert LeBaron

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Review by Kari ★★½ 1

Janet Gaynor is adorable--even with an inconsistent Scottish accent. Charles Farrell is pretty adorable himself and they have good chemistry. The best parts were when they were together. The rival female was Virginia Cherrill, someone I was not familiar with. I will be now since she was Cary Grant's first wife!
Review by RyanSmallwood

Fox's second musical with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrel, with David Butler directing again. This time Gershwin provided a whole score for the film, though unfortunately only 2 songs made it into the finished product.
Janet Gaynor plays a Scottish immigrant sneaking around the city illegally and in love. Lots of the usual musical bag of tricks here, but very well executed overall. Lots of good chase sequences that provide lots of tension and the usual tug of love triangles and misunderstandings. Pacing is overall a big improvement over Sunnyside Up, thought it may still feel a bit casual compared to later musicals.
Normally when these early musicals have the musical talent in the supporting characters it hurts the strength…
Review by Rick Burin ★★★

Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell co-starred in three of the best dramatic movies of the late silent period: Frank Borzage's breathtaking metaphysical trinity of 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Lucky Star. With the advent of sound, the pair were peculiarly reinvented as a musical-comedy team - albeit one not averse to heavy melodrama - and placed in movies like this one, an antiquated but fairly enjoyable vehicle in which Gaynor's Scottish waif falls in love with rich boy Farrell while en route to start a new life in America, only for the immigration authorities (and his horrendous fiancee) to put a dampener on things.
The story isn't the strongest and the comic relief from El Brendel is very dated (aside from his…

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Review by Kari ★★½ 1

Janet Gaynor is adorable--even with an inconsistent Scottish accent. Charles Farrell is pretty adorable himself and they have good chemistry. The best parts were when they were together. The rival female was Virginia Cherrill, someone I was not familiar with. I will be now since she was Cary Grant's first wife!
Review by Michael_Elliott ★½

Really bad musical/drama from Fox about a Scottish immigrant (Janet Gaynor) who arrives in America with a detective (Lawrence O'Sullivan) hot on her trail. She's able to duck him for the time and this is how she meets Larry Beaumont (Charles Farrell), a rich man and it doesn't take long for the two to fall in love.
DELICIOUS was the ninth film to feature Gaynor and Farrell together so needless to say the duo were very popular and audiences loved them. I do wonder how audiences originally reacted to this film. I mean, it's so poorly made but I wonder if they would eat this type of thing up anyways. We've got a poorly made movie that runs way too…
Review by RyanSmallwood

Fox's second musical with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrel, with David Butler directing again. This time Gershwin provided a whole score for the film, though unfortunately only 2 songs made it into the finished product.
Janet Gaynor plays a Scottish immigrant sneaking around the city illegally and in love. Lots of the usual musical bag of tricks here, but very well executed overall. Lots of good chase sequences that provide lots of tension and the usual tug of love triangles and misunderstandings. Pacing is overall a big improvement over Sunnyside Up, thought it may still feel a bit casual compared to later musicals.
Normally when these early musicals have the musical talent in the supporting characters it hurts the strength…
Review by joelnox ★½

Not so delicious creaky early musical. This is a supposed spotlight for the team of Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell after their successes in the silent classics Sunrise and Street Angel but is so stilted and clunky and doesn't accomplish much. Some nice expressionistic touches but not much else.
Review by Gregory Wood ★★★★

tunez by the gr8 gershwin in this pre-code boat journey pic
Review by Rick Burin ★★★

Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell co-starred in three of the best dramatic movies of the late silent period: Frank Borzage's breathtaking metaphysical trinity of 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Lucky Star. With the advent of sound, the pair were peculiarly reinvented as a musical-comedy team - albeit one not averse to heavy melodrama - and placed in movies like this one, an antiquated but fairly enjoyable vehicle in which Gaynor's Scottish waif falls in love with rich boy Farrell while en route to start a new life in America, only for the immigration authorities (and his horrendous fiancee) to put a dampener on things.
The story isn't the strongest and the comic relief from El Brendel is very dated (aside from his…
Review by Jumpingfrog ★★★½

A charming early Janet Gaynor talkie. The film includes a few original songs by George and Ira Gershwin, but none represent the songwriters at their best, although the title song and "Somebody from somewhere" are attractive, the film also contains an early version of what would become Gershwin's "Second Rhapsody."
In the film Gaynor portrays a Scottish immigrant having trouble entering the U.S.A. Gaynor's Scottish accent is... er unusual, when she remembers to do it.