Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301327923
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301327926
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1991-01
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: 1991-01-29
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1937-07-30

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good But Not Great!
Comment: The Toast of New York is an interesting and kind of bizarre movie that I would say is good but not great and is not Cary's best. It is one of Cary Grant's first movies though he is not the main star of the movie, it is actually Edward Arnold's character that the movie is about and the character he plays is a selfish and greedy egomaniac. A real meanie! The movie is a semifactual biography of post Cival war era Wall Street wheeler dealer James Fisk who is played by Edward Arnold and Cary Grant plays his friend and employee and the movie also stars Jack Oakie and Frances Farmer.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An odd entertainment, but oddly entertaining
Comment: 'The Toast of New York' is definitely an odd item - a huge budget biopic about 19th century fraudster Jim Fiske and his battles with Daniel Drew and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Edward Arnold is the right man for the role, easily overshadowing second billed Cary Grant with his force of personality, but it's hard to root for a `hero' whose aim is to bankrupt America. What next, George Soros, the Musical? It's never less than watchable but while Billy Wilder and Izzy Diamond could have turned this into a blistering black comedy, it's beyond the writers to make it work as a rags-to-riches-to-rags drama. It does have one rather beautiful song, 'The First Time I Saw You' that even manages to survive Frances Farmer's flat foghorn drone delivery.

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