Directed by Lloyd BaconMy rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)
Robinson spoofs his gangster persona, yet again, in this mildly funny but entertaining romp. The teaming of Robinson and Broderick Crawford in a comedy is a stroke of genius. Crawford plays the dumb gangster to the hilt, he can't even string together coherent sentences. If they had gone a little bit further this would be a screwball classic. As it is, I'm never comfortable with Robinson doing comedy, and this does nothing to change that opinion. His best scene was "gift wrapping" a suitcase for a customer, which consisted of covering it with brown paper and a loose string. However, the scenes with Santa at the end were the only thing that really got a laugh out of me.
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