Complete credited cast: | |||
Jane Russell | ... | Mildred 'Mibs' Goodhue | |
Groucho Marx | ... | Emile J. Keck | |
Frank Sinatra | ... | Johnny Dalton | |
Don McGuire | ... | R.B. 'Bob' Pulsifer Jr. | |
Howard Freeman | ... | R.B. Pulsifer Sr. | |
Nestor Paiva | ... | 'Hot Horse' Harris, the Bookie | |
Frank Orth | ... | Mr. Kofer | |
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Harry Hayden | ... | J.L. McKissack |
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William Edmunds | ... | Mr. Baganucci |
Russell Thorson | ... | Internal Revenue Service Tailman (as Russ Thorson) |
Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
This move is set some time in the 1940s, so plug that in and go along for the ride. Sinatra stars as an honest man, eking out a living as a bank teller but not enough for marriage. By chance, he's captured by the underworld and makes a mint. He can marry Jane Russell, something the wisecracking waiter, Groucho Marx, seems to want. But there has been an apparent embezzlement at the bank where Sinatra works, and its discovery is timed exactly with Sinatra's underworld winnings. He did not embezzle the money, but he can't rightly say he did come by it. But Groucho is there to help him, and we all know what that means.
This is a nifty film with a few good twists and its share of laughs.
There is a scene where "Johnny Dalton" is lying in his bed in his apartment and Mibs Goodhue in her bed in hers, separated by wall. Dalton starts to sing.
"You know," I teased to my wife, "that guy sounds a lot like Sinatra." "It is," she deadpanned in reply.
"Looks too young to be Sinatra." Yeah, 't was 1951. If you want to go back for a spell, this one will take you there.