History Film / ItHappenedOn5thAvenue

* ShoutOut: Music/FrankSinatra, Creator/GregoryPeck, and Van Johnson all get namechecked.

* LazyBum: Mac. He's the one who gives Bullock and the boys the idea to turn the old army barracks into homes.

* LazyBum: Mac. He's the one who gives the Bullock and the boys the idea to turn the old army barracks into homes.
* MrFanservice: We first encounter Bullock in boxer shorts and handcuffed to a bed. ItMakesSenseInContext.

Aloysius T. "Mac" [=McKeever=] (Moore) is an itinerant hobo who spends his winters living in a Fifth Avenue mansion owned by the wealthy industrialist Michael O'Connor (Ruggles), left vacant and boarded up each year while O'Connor and his family are relocated to Virginia until spring. He sneaks in through a manhole, turns on the heat and electricity, helps himself to some of the generous food supply in the larder, and even "borrows" O'Connor's clothing.

One day in the park Mac encounters Jim Bullock ([=DeFore=]), a war veteran who has recently been made homeless thanks to O'Connor buying his apartment building and demolishing it to build an office building in its place. Mac generously offers to put Jim up in "his" mansion, and Jim readily accepts. Unbeknownst to either of them, O'Connor's rebellious 18-year-old daughter Trudy (Storm) has run away from her boarding school and soon makes her way back to the mansion, where she enters one night to collect some of her clothes. Thinking she's a burglar, Mac and Jim confront her and Jim threatens to call the cops... until Mac quietly pulls him aside and explains his own illicit arrangement. Trudy overhears Mac's confession, and for her own amusement decides to play along by posing as another homeless person. Naturally, she is invited to stay at the mansion too, and soon finds herself attracted to Jim. Not long thereafter, Jim runs into an old Army buddy and his family, who are living out of their car due to the city's postwar housing shortage and could sure use a place to stay...

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the film O'Connor asks Mac if he has a place to stay for the winter, and he tells him he's headed for a nice place down in Virginia – O'Connor's winter home.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the film O'Connor asks Mac if he has a place to stay for the winter, and he tells him he's headed for a nice place down in Virginia... O'Connor's winter home.

* PrettyInMink: Mac and Bullock think that Trudy is stealing from the house, especially when she puts on her mink coat.

* PrettyInMink: Mac and Bullock think that Trudy is stealing from the house especially when she puts on the mink coat.