Up in Central Park (film)

Up in Central Park is a 1948 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes and Vincent Price. Based on the play Up in Central Park by Herbert Fields with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, the film is about a newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man who help expose political corruption in New York City in the 1870s.

When Irish immigrant Timothy Moore Albert Sharpe and his singing daughter Rosie Deanna Durbin arrive in New York City hoping for a better life, they are set upon immediately by Rogan Tom Powers, one of Boss Tweeds men. The illiterate Timothy agrees to vote twentythree times for the Tammany ticket, and is rewarded with 50 and an invitation to Boss Tweeds victory party. At the party, Rosie inadvertently overhears Boss Tweeds latest plan to embezzle the citys coffers through the unnecessary renovation of Central Park. Fearing that Rosie may know about his plan, Boss Tweed appoints the unknowing Timothy to the post of Park Superintendent.Sometime later, John meets Timothy, the new Park Superintendent. Unaware that John is a reporter, Timothy reveals that some of the parks zoo animals are actually being raised for Boss Tweeds consumption. After Johns story appears in the paper, Timothy is fired, but when Rosie appeals to an infatuated Boss Tweed to give her father another chance, he agrees. Also smitten with Rosie, John offers Timothy a job with his newspaper. Soon after, John tries to convince Rosie of Boss Tweeds dishonesty, but is unsuccessful. Later that night, Rosie almost discovers Boss Tweeds true character when he makes numerous, lecherous advances toward her during dinner, but is interrupted by Timothy, who mistakenly believes that he was invited. ........

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