Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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| Edward G. Robinson | ... | Remy Marco | |
| Jane Bryan | ... | Mary Marco | |
| Allen Jenkins | ... | Mike | |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Nora Marco | |
| Willard Parker | ... | Dick Whitewood | |
| John Litel | ... | Post | |
| Edward Brophy | ... | Lefty | |
| Harold Huber | ... | Guiseppe | |
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Eric Stanley | ... | Ritter |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Mr. Whitewood | |
| Bobby Jordan | ... | Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom | |
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Joe Downing | ... | Innocence |
| Margaret Hamilton | ... | Mrs. Cagle | |
| George E. Stone | ... | Kirk | |
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Bert Hanlon | ... | 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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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
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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1.37 : 1
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Nora Marco: Music room? Up to now this has always been the slot machine room.
Remy Marco: Well, that's all going to be changing now. We got to start putting on plenty of class. Oh, and by the way, have Mike take the spittoons out of the living room.
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(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph A. Burke
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Harry Seymour, who also played the piano
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In the original theatrical trailer, Edward G. Robinson as himself, talks to Mark Hellinger about this, his forthcoming picture. 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: Come on in, honey, into the music room.Nora Marco: Music room? Up to now this has always been the slot machine room.
Remy Marco: Well, that's all going to be changing now. We got to start putting on plenty of class. Oh, and by the way, have Mike take the spittoons out of the living room.
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Soundtracks
Dancing with Tears in My Eyes(1930) (uncredited)
Music by Joseph A. Burke
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Harry Seymour, who also played the piano
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This is a funny and relatively fast paced gangster comedy--yes I did say "ganster comedy". It's about a gangster boss trying to go legitimate after prohibition was repealed. He tries, unsuccessfully, to market the same horrible beer that sold well during prohibition (the clientèle was less choosy when that's all they had to chose from). The problem is that in addition, bad stuff keeps happening around him that he had nothing to do with, but with his reputation he certainly would get the blame for! Try as he might, bad stuff just keeps happening.
Edward G. Robinson does a very good job with comedy. If you liked this film, try The Whole Town's Talking or Larceny, Inc. to see more of his comic talents.
By the way, I have absolutely no idea why, but the studio remade this film as "Stop, You're Killing Me" in 1952 (with Broderick Crawford in the lead). My advice is just stick with the original--it's better in every way.