Frankie and Johnnie (1936)
‘Frankie and Johnnie' at Globe
F.S.N.
Published: May 25, 1936
The cinema's rendition of that old barroom ballad, "Frankie and Johnnie" (at the Globe), is slightly more lachrymose and off-key than a whiskey tenor. It finds Helen Morgan as a definitely maidenly Frankie, and Chester Morris as a completely sympathetic Johnnie, the man "who done her wrong." Two years have passed since the picture was filmed in the Bronx and those two years have seen the censors grow mightily in power and authority. What they have done to the picture is more than we can imagine. Even without their scissoring, however, it still must have been pretty bad. It does us wrong.
