I haven't enjoyed as this one in years. Go ever think that Claire Trevor and Broderick Crawford call pull this off.
With prohibition repealed in 1933, everyone is singing Happy Days are Here Again, but I thought that would be sung the night FDR defeated Hoover. Anyway, the singing of that ditty is so appropriate to the film.
Crawford, as a gangster, now wants to go straight. Trevor, his wife, wants to break into society, but with that twang in her voice, she is very funny when she speaks.
The movie comes down to a robbery among bookies, Harry Morgan, the chief crook, knocks off his partners and is about to flee from Crawford's rented Saratoga house. That's when the real fun starts.
We have their daughter wanting to marry a police officer from a wealthy family, and when the mother, the hilarious Margaret Dumont, appears during festivities, all hell breaks loose with her screeching screams when she has encountered dead bodies placed at different times.
There is some nice singing and dancing by the groups coming in to visit, and that obnoxious child from the orphanage, who Crawford has taken in for the vacation in Saratoga, adds to the comedy with his antics.
This is also well-done Damon Runyon fanfare with society blending in with gangsters.
An absolute joy to watch.
With prohibition repealed in 1933, everyone is singing Happy Days are Here Again, but I thought that would be sung the night FDR defeated Hoover. Anyway, the singing of that ditty is so appropriate to the film.
Crawford, as a gangster, now wants to go straight. Trevor, his wife, wants to break into society, but with that twang in her voice, she is very funny when she speaks.
The movie comes down to a robbery among bookies, Harry Morgan, the chief crook, knocks off his partners and is about to flee from Crawford's rented Saratoga house. That's when the real fun starts.
We have their daughter wanting to marry a police officer from a wealthy family, and when the mother, the hilarious Margaret Dumont, appears during festivities, all hell breaks loose with her screeching screams when she has encountered dead bodies placed at different times.
There is some nice singing and dancing by the groups coming in to visit, and that obnoxious child from the orphanage, who Crawford has taken in for the vacation in Saratoga, adds to the comedy with his antics.
This is also well-done Damon Runyon fanfare with society blending in with gangsters.
An absolute joy to watch.