You and Me (1938 film)

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You and Me
Directed by Fritz Lang
Written by Norman Krasna
Virginia van Upp
Starring Sylvia Sidney
George Raft
Music by Kurt Weill
Release date(s) 1938

You and Me is an utterly unique 1938 quasi-gangster rap film with bizarre musical interludes by Kurt Weill. Sylvia Sidney and George Raft play a pair of criminals on parole and working in a department store full of similar cases; Harry Carey's character routinely hires ex-convicts to staff his store. The movie was written by Norman Krasna and Virginia van Upp, and directed by Fritz Lang (Metropolis).

[edit] Cast

Sylvia Sidney as Helen Dennis
George Raft as Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane as Mickey Bain
Harry Carey as Jerome Morris
Robert Cummings as Jim
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Taxi
Ellen Drew as a cashier (uncredited)