"Mr. Dynamite, one of thelast films directed by the great Alan Crosland, (is) a virtually forgottenDashiell Hammett story, made in the wake of the success of The Thin Man, andclearly an attempt to repeat the popular concoction of crime, cocktails andcomedy-yet in no sense a rip-off. Edmond Lowe (as detective T. N. Thompson) ismore of a maverick (and undomesticated) private eye than William Powell. Themystery is a good one and typically complicated, and it's all so slick andfast-paced it's hard to realize that it's all told in sixty-nine minutes. What apity that the economics of today's movie business and the total dissolution ofthe old studio system make it impossible for such solidly crafted and thoroughlyentertaining 'little' pictures as this to be made today°even fortelevision."-William K. Everson