The title for this movie is drawn from the Richard Rodgers music composed for a ballet in the stage presentation "On Your Toes." It's a highlight of this semidocumentary as Joe Gershenson's musical direction and Herschel Burke Gilbert's magnificent orchestrations keep it humming in the
background. This was made a few years after ON THE WATERFRONT and covers much the same territory, although not as well. Egan, playing the real-life Pennsylvania poor boy who came to New York to be the assistant district attorney, gets the task of discovering who shot Shaughnessy, a longshoreman
who had been working on exposing the gangsters in and around the docks. Shaughnessy's wido...
Released:
1957
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins