The fall guy 1930
This is before the Depression became desperate. It’s also about middle class snobbery– the idea that jobs are beneath someone based on their own inflated sense of self worth. The Fall Guy never mentions the Depression, but work is scarce and the temptation to give up lurks everywhere. This helps build the city as one of quiet frustration. It’s Mae Clarke’s film, we’re just watching it. That being said, there’s several fairly sophisticated camera setups and clever use off sound design throughout the film, as director Leslie Pearce (in his only feature) mixes the many, many static shots of the apartment with a few showy moments that briefly shake things up. The Fall Guy definitely feels along the lines that was more in tune with Warners pictures, especially considering the amount of backlot being used to double for New York. RKO was a studio always in search of a house style, and wouldn’t really hit on anything until their adventure movies few years later and the Fred and Ginger movies that would dominate the latter half of the 30s. There’s a lot of broad comedy mixed in, too, with Sparks’ battle with a loan shark popping up at inopportune times.
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The movie stays mostly confined to one room as Bertha and Johnny argue and fret about their future, and Johnny’s desperation to prove that he can make it on his own blowing up in his face in quiet off to the side. The plot is more complicated than that, but not by much. Johnny sees the green and nods and smiles. Nifty wants Johnny to hide a suitcase for him. Johnny sees his way to escape poverty in working with looking bootlegger cum mobster ‘Nifty’ Herman ( Thomas E. He’s the sole provider for his family, which includes his adoring wife, Bertha ( Mae Clarke) and his lazy brother-in-law Danny ( Ned Sparks). This film features a lot of Ned Sparks smiling. That this doesn’t work out is a matter of both dramatic necessity and common sense, the latter something Johnny lacks in spades.
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Is cutting and cleaning fish below the dignity of a smart man? Or at least a man who thinks he’s smart? Johnny instead chooses to run products for the bootleggers with hopes it will lead to respectable full time work. It’s the same conflict that Johnny (silent star Jack Mulhall) in The Fall Guy faces as he chooses between starving his family or working for a fish monger. If I hadn’t had unemployment, I’d have definitely had to consider that option money is as money does. I did not go to work at McDonalds, though I do agree that it speaks to a bit of snobbery on my part. The girl found the idea objectionable, insisting that if you’re unemployed, you should take any work that came along– she would rather I work at McDonalds and get paid for a few months while I did job hunting. I had recently been laid off from my position as a programmer, and had opted to take unemployment. “I know that wrong is wrong, and no amount of talking will make me see otherwise.”Ī few years back, my then-girlfriend and I had a disagreement. The Fall Guy: Dope Slingin’ and Sax Stealin’