Broadway Stories Johnny One Eye

Record ID: 122656
  • Title: Broadway Stories Johnny One Eye
  • Date: 30th January 1994
  • Summary: Johnny One Eye. The scene is set in Mike's Flophouse room in 1930's New York. Mike enters carrying his lunch in a paper bag - passing 2 cats and a mouse on the way. As he tells the story Mike busies himself, setting up a mouse trap, putting out a tin of sardines and a saucer of milk for the cats - switching on a fan, undressing to cool off etc. At the end of the story, we see a mouse lapping at the saucer of milk. The story is Johnny One Eye. Rudolph is wounded by a gun shot and hides in an old house, where he befriends a one eyed kitten - Johnny One Eye. One night an assassin comes to find Rudolph who is too weak to hide. But the kittens one good eye glints in the darkness and the assassin shoots the cat mistaking it for Rudolph.
  • Description:A SERIES FEATURING MIKE MCSHANE TELLING THE DAMON RUNYAN STORIES
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:STAND AND DELIVER PRODUCTIONS
  • Programme Episode:Episode 5
  • Transmission Date:30/01/1994
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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