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You and Me
Every time she says 'I Love You'... she breaks the law!
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
- Original title
- You and Me
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jul 12, 2024 · via TMDB
This is quite an enjoyable film-noir from Fritz Lang that sees wealthy department store owner "Morris" (Harry Carey) use his position to try and help ex-convicts get back on their feet. For many of them it's a catch-22. If they don't have a job they don't get parole and vice versa - so he gives them jobs. Is he just being overly optimistic of might he really be making a difference? Well his benevolence is to be sorely tested when "Joe" (George Raft) appears on the scene. He takes an immediate shine to "Helen" (Sylvia Sidney) and they get married - except, well, she's on parole too so can't get married and that narks "Joe" back into his old habits - and a robbery of the store is planned. Will they get away with it, though? The crime caper elements of this aren't so important, really. This is more a gentle character study of nature and nurture with a little benign opportunity thrown in for good measure. There's a fun scene with "Helen" trying to explain to the would-be thieves just how the economics of crime at their (low) level of the criminal food chain might work which does raise a smile and there's a good chemistry between Sidney and a Raft who's left his menacing hat at the stage door this time. The ending is a little bit twee, but we've some entertainment and the tiniest bit of engaging moralising to keep it going along nicely until the - as well as a few ditties from Kurt Weill and Sam Coslow.
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Sylvia Sidney
Helen Roberts
George Raft
Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane
Mickey
Harry Carey
Mr. Morris
Roscoe Karns
Cuffy
George E. Stone
Pasty
Warren Hymer
Gimpy Carter
Robert Cummings
Jim
Adrian Morris
Knucks
Cecil Cunningham
Mrs. Morris
Vera Gordon
Mrs. Levine
Egon Brecher
Mr. Levine
Willard Robertson
Dayton
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Taxi
Bernadene Hayes
Nellie
Joyce Compton
Curly Blonde
Ernie Adams
Nick (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Second Floorwalker (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
German Waiter (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
Thomas McTavish (uncredited)
Marie Burton
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Ethel Clayton
Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
William B. Davidson
N. G. Orton, Attorney-at-Law (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
Information Clerk (uncredited)
Dorothy Dayton
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Richard Denning
Salesman (uncredited)
Ellen Drew
Cashier (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
Mother of Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
Julia Faye
Secretary (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Kit Guard
2nd Gangster / Prison Inmate (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Security Guard in Store (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Mr. Klein (uncredited)
John Hubbard
Salesman (uncredited)
Gwen Kenyon
Hat-Check Girl (uncredited)
Joyce Mathews
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Newcomer (uncredited)
Ray Middleton
Salesman (uncredited)
Jack Mulhall
First Floorwalker (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Bouncer at Danceland (uncredited)
Edward Pawley
Dutch (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Gangster (uncredited)
Juanita Quigley
Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
Margaret Randall
Shoplifter (uncredited)
Ruth Rogers
Blonde Salesgirl (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Bartender (uncredited)
Archie Twitchell
Salesman (uncredited)
Blanca Vischer
Flower Girl (uncredited)
Cheryl Walker
Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Marion Weldon
Demonstrator (uncredited)
Sam Comer
Set Dresser
Charles Lang
Director of Photography
Lionel Lindon
Second Assistant Camera
Eugene Joseff
Other
John Leipold
Additional Music
Adolph Zukor
Presenter
Fritz Lang
Director
Fritz Lang
Producer
John Leipold
Orchestrator
Kurt Weill
Original Music Composer
Johnny Burke
Lyricist
Norman Krasna
Story
Second Encounters
Mamla Garbar Hai
Ishq Khuda
The Song of Night
A Short Film About Killing
Corpse Bride
Veer-Zaara
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Hair
The Captain from Kopenick
Last Holiday
An Inspector Calls
The Music Man
Across the Universe
Bad Boys
Revolver
The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Enchanted
Ice
Løsladt - Henrik tur/retur
The Longest Yard
Dark Blue Almost Black
Going My Way
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Help! I'm a Fish
Guys and Dolls
Hannah Montana: The Movie
High School Musical 2
Barbershop
Urban Cowboy
Shall We Dance?
A Room in Town
A Song Is Born
Virginia City
The Dead Pool
Death Warrant
Head
Show Boat
Gigi
South Pacific
Pennies from Heaven
Blue Hawaii
St Trinian's
Hamlet 2
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
I Was a Teenage Werebear
Duets
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Odette Toulemonde
Gypsy Sweetheart
Kismet
Eve Knew Her Apples
Hurra, die Schule brennt
Home Alone da Riber
Farewell, Home Sweet Home
Terrible Woman
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana
Mary I Love You
U Shape Ki Gully
The Jungle Book - The Musical
Some Like It Hot
Safety Last!
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Trouble in Paradise
We're No Angels
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Another Thin Man
Take the Money and Run
Mr. Lucky
Shadow of the Thin Man
Mannequin
Two-Way Stretch
High Society
Porridge
You've Got Mail
In the Good Old Summertime
Marry Me
Fun with Dick and Jane
A Night at the Roxbury
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
The Pirate
Small Time Crooks
It's a Wonderful World
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Music and Lyrics
Let's Make Love
Fun with Dick and Jane
Prom
Coffee Shop
May 29, 1938
Los Angeles, California
Jun 1, 1938
New York City, New York
Jun 10, 1938
