Bad Boy
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John Blystone
James Dunn
Dorothy Wilson
Louise Fazenda
Victor Kilian
John Wray
Film Details
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Synopsis
Eddie Nolan, who makes his money as a pool hustler in New York, is reluctant to get a regular job because his father, who was laid off after having worked fifty years as a bookkeeper, was found dead under a subway train with the gold watch his company gave him. This reluctance has caused Eddie's girl friend, Sally Larkin, a cashier at a meat market, to keep their romance secret from her mother and stepfather. However, after they plan to marry, Eddie agrees to get a job. When he is introduced to Sally's parents, he finds that her stepfather is the businessman whom he has been hustling and ridiculing in the poolroom. Larkin calls Eddie a hoodlum and orders him to leave, while Sally's mother feigns an "attack" to make her promise not to see Eddie anymore. The next day, Sally tries to say goodbye to Eddie, but they decide instead to marry secretly and plan to tell her parents after Eddie has gotten a good job. He tries first at Paley's Department Store, and although he convinces a customer to buy a pool table, he is not hired. Meanwhile, Sally's mother encourages her to marry Bob Carey, who has a good job at a bank, a convertible, two lots in Flushing and a savings account. After Eddie overhears Bob propose, he desperately rushes to a radio station and convinces Colonel Good, the host of an amateur hour, to let him "croon" a song. Eddie forgets the words, however, and Colonel Good is forced to give him the gong. The next day, Eddie, depressed, tries to convince Sally to marry Bob. That night, Eddie burns their marriage certificate and packs, but before he can leave, his boardinghouse neighbor Sid, a security guard, calls and asks him to bring his gun, which he forgot. Eddie arrives at the estate of Westover, a utilities magnate, as the kidnapping of Westover's son is taking place and finds Sid bound and gagged. Although Eddie is shot, he chases the gang and shoots at them, which causes their car to crash. Just then, Sally, riding with her parents in Bob's convertible, passes by, and seeing Eddie lying in the street, she screams and reveals that he is her husband. Eddie recovers and as Sally moves into the boardinghouse with him, Westover calls to say that he has gotten Eddie a job at Paley's selling pool tables.
Director
John Blystone
Cast
James Dunn
Dorothy Wilson
Louise Fazenda
Victor Kilian
John Wray
Luis Alberni
Beulah Bondi
Allen Vincent
Arthur Hoyt
Bert Roach
Ned Norton
Maidel Turner
Belle Daube
Howard Phillips
Irving Bacon
Margaret Bloodgood
Anne O'neal
Alice Keating
Samuel E. Hines
Betty Farrington
Esther Michelson
Mariska Aldrich
Harry Holman
Albert Taylor
Edna Bennett
George Lloyd
James Bradbury
Will Stanton
Tammany Young
Ann Doran
Doro Merande
John Carradine
Constantine Romanoff
Zeffie Tilbury
Frank Moran
Stanley Blystone
Eddie Sturgis
William P. Carleton
Bob Witt
West Virginia Ramblers
Jerry Mandy
Leonard Mellin
Jack Latham
Rita Ross
Gertrude Astor
Georgia O'dell
Blanche Payson
J. L. Lindsey
Robert Ellsworth
Crew
Edward Butcher
Margaret Clancey
Viña Delmar
Phil Ford
Bert Glennon
Eugene Grossman
William Lambert
Arthur Lange
Jack Otterson
Lew Pollack
Allen Rivkin
Winfield R. Sheehan
Paul Webster
Film Details
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This film was begun by Fox Film Corp. before they merged with Twentieth Century to form Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. The title card in the opening credits reads: "Fox Film Presents Viña Delmar's Bad Boy." The "Catalogue of Stories and Plays Owned by Fox Film Corporation" states that the original unpublished and uncopyrighted story, continuity and dialogue were written by Viña and Eugene Delmar, while no other source mentions Eugene Delmar. In 1931, Fox produced Bad Girl (see below), based on Delmar's popular novel and play, in which James Dunn, appearing in his first film, also played a character named "Eddie." According to Hollywood Reporter, Victor Kilian was borrowed from Columbia. New York Times stated that this film was "a victim of the cutting room" and commented that it "seems to have been manufactured in a terrible hurry."
