Baby Face Morgan ~ 1942 -BW

QUICKIE: Golly gee willikers guys! What do you mean I'm the head gangster?!?!

PLOT: A young man's father, who lives in the big city, dies and his business associates bring his son to the city to take over his father's business. What the young man doesn't know is that his father was one of the city's biggest racket bosses and that he's being placed in charge of the gang's profitable shakedown operations, disguised as an insurance agency.

SUMMARY: Well, this has quite a few PDMRB rules going in it:
#1. Suspension of reality makes the story work and the movie enjoyable.
#2. Crime doesn't pay.
#14. The bad guys always get busted .
#18. Jump to conclusions and suspect the worst from others.
#19. Misunderstandings make for a funny, heart-warming story.
And of course the rule supreme of the happy ending when all misunderstandings are cleared up and the bad guys are busted, and the couple gets married. Awww.

This movie is just silly. An innocent kid is assumed to be a crook just because he's the mob boss' son. So without knowing anything about the kid, the whole lot put him in charge. He treats it as a legitamate business and does quite well paying the insurance claims business owners are making because the mob is blowing up their trucks. The office is a hoot as the secretary and her boyfriend are breading rabbits to make her a fur coat. Misunderstandings abound and in the end the truth comes to light and "Baby Face" has to make a stand in the room of gangsters. Cute and always the happy ending.

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