Comments on: Didja ever notice – “milk trucks” in film?

By: MDR

MDR — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:07:11 +0000

Good Neighbor Sam (1964), part of the new Jack Lemmon Collection, starts off with a milkman delivering door to door.

By: George nichols

George nichols — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:59:17 +0000

How about the Danny Kaye, “A Kid from Brooklyn?” Wasn’t he a milk man in this movie with a horse drawn wagon?

By: MDR

MDR — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:22:39 +0000

During the humorous opening credits of I Know Where I'm Going (1945), there is a horse-drawn milk cart.

By: addie

addie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:48:56 +0000

"Confessions Of Boston Blackie"Boston steals away in a milk truck truck, then waylays an ice cream truck driver and steals his jacket.

By: drb

drb — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:43:15 +0000

In the silent, "The Cat and the Canary" one of the group escapes the murderous goings on in the dark house by flagging down a horse-drawn milk cart.

By: Luman

Luman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:19:32 +0000

In Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" Robert Donat escapes his apartment and an unwanted corpse by convincing the milk man to let him wear his coat so as to slip by the agents laying in wait outside . I think you get to see the horse and milk cart too.

By: Frostbite

Frostbite — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:50:14 +0000

"Married Before Breakfast" – Robert Young's character tries selling an insurance policy to an elusive milkman. I think they end up stealing the truck…

By: cso

cso — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:54:30 +0000

"He Walked By Night" where the milk truck driver is the undercover cop sent to sus out if electronics genius/serial killer Richard Basehart is home. Richard, you shoulda bought a lactose intolerant mutt!

By: MDR

MDR — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:28:26 +0000

The Affairs of Martha (1942), a delightful little comedy that was on TCM yesterday, includes a horse drawn milk cart and a milkman making deliveries door-to-door at its beginning.

By: MDR

MDR — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:48:45 +0000

Another milkman scene, with a brief glimpse of the wheel and side of a milk cart, appears at the beginning of the "Lullaby of Broadway" number in Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), sung by Wini Shaw (and Dick Powell).