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Little Miss Marker

1934 · 79 min

A gentle, sentimental comedy-drama with a tough-guy heart of gold, balancing gangster grit with a child's sweetness.

Overview: Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: found family
parenthood
redemption
love
grief
Places: big city
home
hospital
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, family
Directed by: Alexander Hall
Written by: Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, William R. Lipman
Starring: Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford, Dorothy Dell, Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman, Sam Hardy, John Kelly
Cinematography: Alfred Gilks
Runtime: 79 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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