Thursday, December 29, 2011

Double Dynamite (1951)


RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Irving Cummings
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)

Odd pairing of Groucho and Sinatra living it up on gambling money. Frank unknowingly saves a bookie from getting beat up by thugs and then wins a boat load in his back room horse parlor. He enlists Groucho, a waiter at the local Italian restaurant, to help him hide the loot. Frank is suspected of embezzlement in the bank where he works as a teller. Jane Russell is a coworker and love interest. The plot is contrived and performances strained. Groucho gets the best lines impersonating a millionaire.

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