Bobby Breen Musical Double Feature: Breaking the Ice / Escape to Paradise
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 20, 2017
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bobby Breen, Charles Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Irene Dare, Kent Taylor & Joyce Compton | |
Directed by | Edward F. Cline & Erle C. Kenton |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
BREAKING THE ICE (1938): Tommy Martin is a poor boy living in Pennsylvania's Mennonite community with his widowed mother. A sleazy conman, "Swapping Sam" Terwilligger, thinks he can make a fortune after hearing the lad's beautiful singing voice. Sam takes Tommy to Philadelphia, where he is soon making $25 a week singing at an ice skating rink. Tommy thinks $20 of his salary is being sent back home to his mother, but it is actually going to Sam. Refusing to be swindled any longer, Tommy now must make a living on the mean streets of Philadelphia, alone...
Breaking the Ice was meant to launch the career of Bobby's co-star, six year-old ice skating sensation Irene Dare. She would only make two more films, Everything's on Ice (1939) and Silver Skates (1943). Charles Ruggles, whose illustrious career spanned six decades, appeared in Trouble in Paradise (1932), Murders In The Zoo (1933), Alice in Wonderland (1933), Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944), and The Parent Trap (1961), among many other films. Dolores Costello was a popular screen siren in the silent era and starred in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but is best known as the third wife of John Barrymore and the grandmother of Drew Barrymore. Breaking the Ice also earned an Oscar nomination for Victor Young's score.
ESCAPE TO PARADISE (1939): In his final starring role, Bobby plays an underage taxi driver supporting his family in South America. He is rewarded handsomely after helping an American tourist pursue a sexy Señorita. Escape to Paradise was Bobby's last movie before his voice changed. Co-star Kent Taylor later found great success on television as Boston Blackie (1951-1953). Erle C. Kenton directed numerous short comedies during the 1920s before helming cult horror classics such as Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), and House of Dracula (1945).
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