Sunshine of Paradise Alley

1926
1h 15m

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Barbara Bedford and Jack Nelson in Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926)

A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there starts to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the ... Read allA wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there starts to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the tenement dwellers are stealing bonds from the bank. When they are about to be caught, they... Read allA wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there starts to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the tenement dwellers are stealing bonds from the bank. When they are about to be caught, they try to frame the girl and her boyfriend, and the bank employee attempts to force himself ... Read all

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Actress Lucille Lee Stewart's final film.

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On the inter-title 48 minutes into the story "Who's" is misspelled as "Whose."

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All The Stereotypes In One Medium-Sized Package

Barbara Bedford is the fix-it girl of Paradise Alley, a slum in New York. Informed the street is to be torn down to make way for a factory, she inveigles Gayne Whitman, whose mother owns the property, into trying to persuade her to change her mind in return for performing at a party.

The movie is eked out with the various colorful stock characters of the Alley, including a Chinese Man, a circus acrobat whose boyfriend is using her grouch bag to finance his stepping out on him, as well as single representatives of other ethnic minorities, each given the usual pejorative name. There's also a subplot about some of Whitman's bonds being stolen by his employees, an attempted rape, and a Apache dance.

It's a typical cheap Poverty Row movie from Chadwick that wouldn't play in the big cities, but doubtless was reasonably popular in rotation in the smaller markets. Despite its rather time-worn and commonplace stereotypes it's amiable enough to be watchable. With Max Davidson, Tui Bow, Max Asher and Leon Janney.