Just Around the Corner

UPC: 024543249313

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Child Classic]

Summary: Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts realistically enough, with 10-year-old Penny Hale (Temple) sharing a basement apartment with her widowed father Jeff (Charles Farrell, in his final Fox film). Once a prosperous architect, Jeff has been working as a hotel janitor-engineer ever since the Wall Street Crash. Ordered by pompous hotel concierge Waters (Franklin Pangborn) to keep her place, Penny nonetheless has fun wandering the lobbies of the posh establishment under the watchful and protective eyes of her friends, Kitty the maid (Joan Davis), Gus the chauffeur (Bert Lahr) and Corporal Jones the doorman (Bill Robinson). Having been told by her dad that the only person who can pull the country out of the Depression is Uncle Sam, Penny becomes convinced that goateed billionaire tycoon S. G. Henshaw (Claude Gillingwater Sr.) is Uncle Sam come to life. Charming her way into the heart of the irascible Henshaw, Penny convinces him to help the economy get started again. Not only does Uncle Sam accomplish this by creating thousands of new jobs, but he also manages to give Penny's father Jeff a new start in life, much to the delight of Jeff's sweetheart Lola (Amanda Duff). The film's highlights are Shirley Temple's always-delightul dance duets with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; less easy to take when seen today is the closing "Buttons and Epaulets" production number, performed by a chorus of servile blacks. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

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Just Around the Corner

Format: DVD

Release Date: 07/25/2006

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 70 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Just Around the Corner
1. Main Titles [1:00]
2. But I Live Here! [4:26]
3. Just You and Me [1:58]
4. This Is a Happy Little Ditty [2:12]
5. The Expensive Mr. Hale [5:23]
6. Mothers' Little Lamb [:26]
7. Penthouse Privileges [6:04]
8. As Tough As Uncle Sam [:24]
9. Bad Tidings [2:41]
10. Saving Uncle Sam [1:21]
11. A Hair-Raising Experience [2:01]
12. The Tough Guy [:45]
13. Miniature Matchmakers [:51]
14. Out of Sight, Out of Mind [2:25]
15. Where's Borneo? [3:10]
16. The Rotary is Rotating [:06]
17. But He's Uncle Sam [3:10]
18. Brass Buttons and Epaulettes [3:42]
19. I Love to Walk in the Rain [4:01]
20. End Titles [2:05]

Cast and Crew: Eddie Conrad  Actor 
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson  Actor 
Charles Anthony Hughes  Actor 
Walter Bullock  Composer (Music Score) 
Irving Cummings  Director 
Harold Spina  Composer (Music Score) 
Darrell Ware  Screenwriter 
Darryl F. Zanuck  Producer 
David Hempstead  Producer 
Ethel Hill  Screenwriter 
J.P. McEvoy  Screenwriter 
Shirley Temple  Actor 
Joan Davis  Actor 
Charles Farrell  Actor 
Amanda Duff  Actor 
Bert Lahr  Actor 
Franklin Pangborn  Actor 
Cora Witherspoon  Actor 
Claude Gillingwater  Actor 
Bennie Bartlett  Actor 
Hal K. Dawson  Actor 
Charles Williams  Actor 
J. Anthony Hughes  Actor 
Orville Caldwell  Actor 
Marilyn Knowlden  Actor 

Country: USA