It Happened on 5th Avenue (It Happened on Fifth Avenue) 1947 DVD Colorized Shown in original aspect ratio Approx. 114 min. Playable in North America (the US, Canada, Mexico, etc.)
Starring: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Alan Hale Jr. and Edward Ryan Jr. Written by Everett Freeman and Vick Knight from a story by Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani. Directed by Roy Del Ruth.
Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a vagrant, makes his home in a seasonally vacant Fifth Avenue mansion, each time its owner—industrial magnate Michael J. O'Connor (Charles Ruggles), the world's second richest man—winters at his Virginia estate. McKeever winds up taking in ex-G.I. Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and later 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" (Gale Storm), a runaway who is actually O'Connor's daughter. Jim and Trudy fall for each other. Due to a housing crisis, Jim eventually invites war buddies Whitey (Alan Hale Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan Jr.) and their families to share the vast mansion until they can find homes of their own.
*** This colorized version is rare and wonderful. Very few prints of the colorized version of IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE exist. After an extensive search we found what we believe to be the best one. We are pleased to make this available here on DVD. The quality is not a state-of-the-art re-mastered version - but it is very good and a treasure for those who truly wish to see this wonderful film that Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, praised its "geniality and humor" and the "charming performance" by Moore.
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