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.
Baby Face Morgan ~ 1942 -BW
Dead Men Walk ~ 1943 -BW
QUICKIE: George Zucco plays a vampire!
PLOT: (from IMDB): With the death of Dr. Elwyn Clayton (George Zucco), his twin brother, Dr. Lloyd Clayton (also George Zucco) is almost relieved. His late brother has changed significantly since a trip to India where he had become interested in mysticism and the occult. In fact, his brother has now risen from the dead and is a vampire out to seek revenge on his brother who had a hand in his premature death. Despite several deaths in the town, Lloyd is reluctant to believe his late brother is a vampire. When Elwyn attacks their niece Gayle, he enlists the aid of her fiancé to fight the evil that is among them.
SUMMARY: The fabulous George Zucco in a dual role of vampire & the good brother trying to stop him. A different take on the story as Clayton is made a vampire through occult sorcery instead of through siring. The rest is typical: he's after the pretty girl (and it's never mentioned, but she's his daughter-ew), the boyfriend suspects the uncle which incites the townsfolk to come after the good Dr., thinking he's a murderer. No one believes in vampires until the end when the 2 brothers fight to the death in a burning building and fire just happens to be the only way to kill vampires in this movie. A fun little vampire movie. Not much new though.
