Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
- Detective Quelkin
- (as Thomas Jackson)
- First Waiter
- (uncredited)
- Shep Adkins
- (uncredited)
- Chief of Police
- (uncredited)
- Red, Taxi Driver
- (uncredited)
- Jackie DeVoe
- (uncredited)
- Mabel
- (uncredited)
- Bus Station Clerk
- (uncredited)
- Joe
- (uncredited)
- Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHumphrey Bogart's first film for Warner Bros., where he would sign a long-term contract four years later and eventually become a star. This was his ninth appearance in films. He appeared in Big City Blues (1932) in an uncredited role as "Shep Adkins."
- GoofsHumphrey Bogart wears a solid colour tie, while his double doesn't.
- Quotes
Bud Reeves: Oh, I don't think you got to really know New York.
Station Agent: I wonder. I wonder if I didn't. I was a telegraph operator and a process server. I was a part-time life guard at Rockaway Beach. I worked on the BMT and drove a taxi. I was a rubber in a Turkish bath. Had a job on the day shift in the Hymnbook factory and on the night shift in the bowery flop house---a job they handed to let me to work out my rent. I drew wages in a hash house and a 'chink' laundry and a pet shop. For a week I sorted stiffs in the morgue and for a month worked on a coal barge. I delivered gin for a drug store in Astoria and had my own ice business in the Bronx. I met tramps and bootleggers and bishops and reporters and gun men and borough presidents and you, you come-a tellin' me I didn't get to know New York.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Great Performances: Bacall on Bogart (1988)
During a party a girl was killed with a champagne bottle and Bud would become the number one suspect. The only person he trusted in all of New York was a small town woman named Vida Fleet (Joan Blondell) and he was hoping that she could help him out.
"Big City Blues" is chiefly about how big cities chew up and spit out country bumpkins like Bud on a daily basis. Pie-eyed suckers like him flock to New York, L. A., and Chicago on a regular basis just to find out how cut-throat and vicious those places are. I liked the theme of the movie even if I didn't like Bud's character. He was too Mayberry. It was pathetic. I doubt any normal human being ever talked like Bud did.
Also of note in the movie was Humphrey Bogart. This was before he became a big star, hence he had a small part in the movie.
- view_and_review
- Jun 27, 2023
Details
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1