The first movie produced by Stanley Kramer, 1948’s So This is New York, was a screwball satire of city life. His astute business instincts apparently not yet honed, he chose to preview it in the Midwest, where it bombed. The movie never opened. Now, at the urging of Martin Scorsese and others, this film buff’s film is finally being seen in the city it lampoons. New York Times
