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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. Director:Lloyd Bacon |
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Dick Whitewood
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Ritter
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Mr. Whitewood
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Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
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Innocence
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Mrs. Cagle
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Sad Sam
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Remy Marco, Prohibition beer baron, figures he'll do even better after repeal. Only trouble is, his beer tastes terrible. (He drinks no beer himself and nobody dares tell him). Four years later, when he's about bankrupt, he visits his summer home in Saratoga, complete with: 1) a dead-end-kid orphan; 2) his daughter's fiance...a state trooper!, 3) the bodies of four gangsters who planned to ambush Remy but had a shootout; 4) half a million in loot they hid in the house...just the amount Remy needs to get out of hock. The comic confusion mounts... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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5 March 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bare et lite mord See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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(1911) (uncredited)
Music by Ernie Burnett
Lyrics by George A. Norton
Sung by Harry Seymour, who also played the piano
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The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 11 September 1935 and closed in October 1935 after 69 performances. The opening night cast included John Harrington as Remy Marco and Georgia Caine as Nora Marco. Future screen star 'José Ferrer (I)' played a Policeman. See more »Goofs
When Remy drinks from the glass of beer from which Whitewood drank, there is inexplicably more beer in the glass. See more »Quotes
Remy Marco: Sure, I'm legit. I'm in favor of law and order. But you don't have to have it right in your own house, do you?See more »
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"My Melancholy Baby"(1911) (uncredited)
Music by Ernie Burnett
Lyrics by George A. Norton
Sung by Harry Seymour, who also played the piano
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Edward G. Robinson has been typecast so often as "THE gangster", that it's quite unusual to see him in a COMEDY!
A gangster who owns a brewery decides to "go straight" and become "respectable" (along with his unwilling gang); and all sorts of funny things happen: his daughter wants to marry a state trooper (!), bodies show up in his house, etc.
As the other reviewer said, many people don't like this film, but *I* found it thoroughly enjoyable!
If you want to see Robinson in an even BETTER comedy, check out "The Whole Town Is Talking", where he plays a dual role: Public Enemy # 1, and a timid clerk who happens to be a dead ringer for him!
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