A Slight Case of Murder

In this late-thirties black comedy, Edward G. Robinson relishes in a burlesque of the character he epitomized earlier in the decade, the Prohibition-era kingpin. The story, based on a Damon Runyon play, has a bootlegger trying to go straight in a post-Prohibition brewery business, hiring his former flunkies as department heads and salesmen. With his upwardly mobile wife and Paris-educated daughter as mortified witnesses, he is haunted at every turn by a quartet of mobster corpora delicti who seem bent on insinuating themselves into his domestic life.

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