The St. Louis Kid

United States

1934

67 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

SCR Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Warren Duff, Seton I. Miller

CAST James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Allen Jenkins, Robert Barrat, Hobart Cavanaugh, Spencer Charters, Addison Richards, Dorothy Dare, Arthur Aylesworth, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson, Harry Woods, Gertrude Short, Eddie Shubert

MUSIC M.K. Jerome, Bernhard Kaun

Synopsis

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder. —IMDb

Director

Ray Enright

Journeyman director Ray Enright started out in the editing department at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios; before working his way up to chief editor, he also contributed gags to Sennett’s 2-reel comedies. Following World War I service, Enright joined Thomas Ince’s editing staff, then moved to up-and-coming Warner Bros. There he was given his first opportunity to direct with the Rin Tin Tin vehicle Tracked by the Police (1927). He remained on the Warners/First National directorial pool until 1941, adding his professional (if somewhat anonymous) touch to the films of Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Jimmy Cagney and Dick Powell. Enright’s credits of the 1940s include Universal’s The Spoilers (1942), Columbia’s Good Luck Mr. Yates (1943) and RKO’s The Iron Major (1943). Ray Enright returned to the Warners fold in the late 1940s, where he became one of the principal directors of the studio’s medium-budget westerns. —allmovie