Movie of the Week: "Big Brown Eyes"

The streetwise, Manhattan-born director Raoul Walsh had the inspiration to turn England's own Cary Grant into a hard-boiled New York City police detective in the 1936 crime comedy "Big Brown Eyes" (which I discuss in this clip). Grant had prominent roles in a pair of Mae West films, and he capered antically as a Cockney comedian in George Cukor's "Sylvia Scarlett," but Walsh pulled off the unlikely feat of making Grant an instant American type. He also made him a Walsh type, akin to the police-o...