The Milky Way
The Milky Way is a 1936 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Directed by comedy veteran Leo McCarey, the film was written by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell based on a play of the same name by Lynn Root and Harry Clork that was presented on Broadway in 1934.
Plot
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan works for the American company Sunflower Dairies. Two drunk men try to chat up Mae, Sullivan's sister, and he chances by. In an ensuing brawl, Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion, gets knocked out, but Sullivan never in fact threw a punch; he merely ducked to get out of the way of a punch thrown by Speed's bodyguard which brought the champ down. When trying to explain what happened to Speed's boss, Gabby Sloan and others in view, the newspapers walk in on the aftermath that accidentally demonstrates Spider having knocked out Speed after Burleigh ducks again.
More details
| author | Frank Butler Grover Jones Richard Connell |
|---|---|
| director | Leo McCarey Norman Z. McLeod |
| editor | LeRoy Stone |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | american company fight knock out one night world champion |
| musicBy | Victor Young |
| producer | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |