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Bookmark this pageTugboat Annie (1933)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Amiable and amusing comedy-drama, uniting for the second time (after Min and Bill) MGM's older and uglier alternatives to the likes of Garbo and Gilbert: the admirably cynical, world-worn Dressler and the rumbustious but surprisingly subtle Beery. Most delightful are their scenes of brawling and quarrelling as the husband-and-wife skippers of a tugboat, although Dressler also manages to inject a more sentimental touch into her scenes with upwardly mobile son Young. For sheer uncomplicated professionalism of performance, the old-timers can't be beat.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Harry Rapf
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Willard Robertson, Frankie Darro full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 87 mins
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