A softboiled gangster film in which a gang of overgrown j.d.'s--led by Lloyd Nolan--help a bankrupt town by offering shelter from the outside world to big-time mobsters, for a price. The town jail becomes the prototype of the "country club" prison with cells going for $1,000 a week. William K. Everson calls Buy Me That Town "an expert little 'B' that is like a mating of Damon Runyon and Frank Capra--and also an interesting example of the wartime patriotic sentimentalizing of gangsters. A good enough plot to have been an 'A'--but then it might have lost much of its sprightly charm and been forced to cater to star names. As it is, a fine roster of non-stars carry it off beautifully: Nolan, Albert Dekker, Sheldon Leonard, Warren Hymer and others, aided by the lovely Constance Moore, one of the major assets of 'B' movies in the late '30s and early '40s. Recognized as a surprise hit even at the time, it holds its own very well some 40 years later, and reminds us what a good (if uncelebrated) director Eugene Ford was."