Lucky Jordan
Tough ... trigger mad ... and Terrific !
1942 | 84m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Frank Tuttle |
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| Writer: | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, Charles Leonard |
| Staring: |
| Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 16, 1942 |
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| Director: | Frank Tuttle |
| Writer: | Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, Charles Leonard |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | new york city, gangster, nazi spy, draft dodger |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Alan Ladd | Lucky Jordan |
| Helen Walker | Jill Evans |
| Sheldon Leonard | Slip Moran |
| Mabel Paige | Annie ('Ma') |
| Marie McDonald | Pearl |
| Lloyd Corrigan | Ernest Higgins |
| Dave Willock | Angelo Palacio |
| Russell Hoyt | Eddie |
| John Wengraf | Herr Kesselman |
| Miles Mander | Kilpatrick |
| Clem Bevans | Gas Station Attendant |
| Anthony Caruso | Hired Gun |
| Charles Cane | Sergeant |
| George Meader | Clarence |
| Virginia Brissac | Clarence's Wife |
| Kitty Kelly | Vera Maggotti |
| George Humbert | Joe Maggotti |
| Al Hill | First Killer (as Al M. Hill) |
| Fred Kohler Jr. | Second Killer |
| Kirk Alyn | Pearl's Boyfriend |
| Georgia Backus | Toy Shop Clerk |
| Jack Baxley | Passerby with Quarter |
| Sara Berner | Helen |
| Dorothy Dandridge | Hollyhock School Maid |
| Joe Downing | Harrison |
| Danny Duncan | Cigar Store Clerk |
| Ralph Dunn | Army Guard |
| Edward Earle | Government Courier with Briefcase |
| Edythe Elliott | Second Secretary |
| Albert Ferris | Gardener |
| Frederick Giermann | Bulky Gardener |
| Roy Gordon | Colonel |
| William Halligan | Miller |
| John Harmon | Big-Ears |
| Carol Hughes | Girl in Back Room |
| Olaf Hytten | Charles |
| Arthur Loft | Hearndon |
| Edwin Max | Sergeant |
| Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart | Second Soldier |
| Harold Minjir | Flower Shop Clerk |
| Jimmy O'Gatty | Mug |
| Ralph Peters | Brig Sergeant |
| Paul Phillips | Pick-Up Man |
| Terrance Ray | Sentry |
| Keith Richards | Third Soldier |
| Ronald R. Rondell | Florist |
| Paul Stanton | George Hunnicutt |
| Elliott Sullivan | First Soldier |
| Crane Whitley | Gardener |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Frank Tuttle | Director |
| Karl Tunberg | Screenplay |
| Adolph Deutsch | Original Music Composer |
| John F. Seitz | Director of Photography |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Darrell Ware | Screenplay |
| Charles Leonard | Story |
| Archie Marshek | Editor |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Ernst Fegté | Art Direction |
| Stephen Seymour | Set Decoration |
| Hugo Grenzbach | Sound Recordist |
| Walter Oberst | Sound Recordist |
| Charles C. Coleman | Assistant Director |
| George Parrish | Orchestrator |
| Leo Shuken | Orchestrator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Fred Kohlmar | Associate Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
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I never really rated Alan Ladd but he's quite decent in this wartime thriller. He's the gangster "Lucky" who finds himself drafted! Despite the best efforts of his lawyer "Higgins" (Lloyd Corrigan) to get him off, he is duly posted - and promptly absconds. Not before, though, he encounters "Jill" (H ... elen Walker) who disapproves heartily of his unpatriotic attitude. She ends up his hostage and the briefcase she was carrying becomes the hottest property in town. We discover it contains some top secret army designs and that there's a group of Nazi fifth columnist's out to retrieve it. Now "Lucky" has to make some tough choices (and a fairly impassioned speech at the end) before their secrets fall into enemy hands. The drama itself is quite well put together and decently paced. There's a solid, if unremarkable, effort from Walker and a few scene stealing quips from Mabel Paige's rather astute "Annie" - the sharpest, shrewdest and wittiest of the bunch. It's all fairly standard fayre, but is an easy watch as it sows the seeds for US involvement in WWII.