Uprooting from Nazi Germany (who had big plans for him) and immigrating to the US and Hollywood Fritz Lang hit the ground running with two sharp perceptive pieces of dark Americana, Fury with Spencer Tracy and You only Live Once with Henry Fonda. His third effort, You and Me however was quirky effort with Kurt Weill theatrics that betray what looked like Lang's immediate grasp of the American scene. A sloppy goulash of caper, comedy, romance and music it fails to jell in anyway.
Macy's like department store owner Mr. Morris (Harry Carey) has a soft heart for ex-cons and hires them to work throughout the store. Two of his success stories played by George Raft and Sylvia Sydney meet and fall for each other but a former con (Barton Maclane) not up for reform plots with the other con/employees to rob the store.
You and Me is on sorry footing from the outset with its poor mix of genres never establishing a set mood and it results in a type of warped burlesque with some ill fitting Mack the Knife musical numbers of the boys lamenting the "good life" back in stir. Uneven at best, the Capra corn climax, simply puts a fork in this disheveled mess.
Macy's like department store owner Mr. Morris (Harry Carey) has a soft heart for ex-cons and hires them to work throughout the store. Two of his success stories played by George Raft and Sylvia Sydney meet and fall for each other but a former con (Barton Maclane) not up for reform plots with the other con/employees to rob the store.
You and Me is on sorry footing from the outset with its poor mix of genres never establishing a set mood and it results in a type of warped burlesque with some ill fitting Mack the Knife musical numbers of the boys lamenting the "good life" back in stir. Uneven at best, the Capra corn climax, simply puts a fork in this disheveled mess.