EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Buffronioc One of the wrost movies I have ever seen

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

MartinHafer Steve (Robert Taylor) is a gambler and his buddies are all gangsters. While he has a nice-guy persona, he's one of them and makes money rigging various sporting events and it's an ugly business. In the midst of this comes a nice lady, Toni (Virginia Bruce) and the two soon fall for each other. However, she doesn't know about Steve and her family's business interests and Steve eventually has a problem with his conscience. He loves her but his friends are killers and thugs. What to do?This is an okay movie but could have been a lot better and more biting. But, inexplicably, the film has a musical interesting, Pinky, who has absolutely no reason to be in the film and he's a completely lightweight character--and has no place in a film that should have had a lot more noir. Additionally, the ending really was too idealistic and difficult to believe. All in all, a decent set up but a dissatisfying conclusion.

mark.waltz Sounding like a glamorous MGM drawing room comedy, "Times Square Lady" is so totally the opposite as it deals with the death of a criminal and the revelation that the heir to his nightclub is a daughter he barely knew brought up by her late mother's relatives in Iowa. When this glamorous young lady arrives, society takes notice, and the gangsters who wanted to get control of his club go after her like a dog attacking a steak. She attracts the attention of the very handsome Robert Taylor who isn't as involved in organized crime as the rival gangsters but is already engaged to the shady Helen Twelvetrees. Pretty much nothing happens in the film's 67 minutes that couldn't have been summed up in one of those "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts, and too much time is given to country bumpkin Pinky Tomlin to sing "The Object Of My Affection" over and over. Frankly, I'd rather hear Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer sing it in that memorable "Our Gang" short.Nat Pendleton adds buffoonish comedy as Taylor's driver, and really surpasses the line of stupidity when he sticks his smiling head out of a window, looking back at shooting gangsters chasing them. Isabel Jewell adds a bit of amusing comedy as the manicurist whom Bruce hires as her secretary/companion, but for the most part, this feels like an amalgamation of bits and pieces of every crime drama already made and totally overloaded with stereotypes. Taylor and Bruce make an attractive couple, but its just a shame that they didn't have a screenplay that was a bit fresher and didn't feel like it was thrown together with pages torn apart from older scripts.

Martha Wilcox There is nothing to commend this film. They call it a movie, but it fails to provide any engaging characters or compelling story. The script is poorly written, and the comedy in the film is just not funny. It's one of those films that has not stood the test of time and has become hard to find simply because it's not good. It comes nowhere near the quality of Robert Taylor's later films. His 1930s films are of a poor quality, and there is no star quality in any of them to indicate what he would become later in his career. I would say to all Taylor fans to stay away from this film as it provides no entertainment value nor is Taylor's performance up to the standard of what we would expect.

Arthur Hausner Robert Taylor, in his first leading role, manages a nightclub in this romantic crime drama. Virginia Bruce inherits that club as well as some other sporting places around town: a hockey team, a race track, a dog track, etc. Henry Kolker is a crooked lawyer trying to get her to sell her holdings at a fraction of their true worth on behalf of the other crooked managers. So they stage events to convince her (and a hockey player is killed as a result of a staged fight). Because she is so reluctant, Kolker has Taylor, as the most handsome of the bunch, to woo her and convince her to sell. But of course he falls in love instead, and his actions are then very predictable, as are the actions of the other managers, who do not take Taylor's betrayal lying down. The biggest attraction for me was the appearance of Pinky Tomlin, who has little to do with the plot. He's there to provide some comedy and to sing his very popular song "The Object of My Affection" and another lesser known song he co-wrote. Tomlin hasn't made many movies, so it's worth seeing this one to catch him in it.