Saturday 25 May 2024

A Slight Case of Murder (1938 Lloyd Bacon)

Based on a play by Damon Runyon (thus names like 'Innocence' and 'No Nose Cohen') and Howard Lindsay, adapted by Earl Baldwin and Joseph Schrank, this comedy has gangster Edward G Robinson trying to go straight in the beer brewing business, to the confusion of his family and mob pals. Jane Bryan particularly fun attempting to improve manners and diction. With stalwart support from Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy and Harold Huber. Ruth Donnelly and Willard Parker are the rather colourless love interest - he's too tall. Too tall, I tell you. Bobby Jordan plays the rebellious orphan 'Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom'. Margaret Hamilton is the orphanage principal.

Photographed by Sid Hickox.




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