To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard.


Is this worth a watch? If you're the type who enjoys watching 1930s studio movies just to see how fast they can move from comedy to crime drama without blinking, then sure. If you need a script that actually tracks from start to finish? Probably skip it. It feels less like a movie and more like a series of ideas that w...


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"Is this worth a watch? If you're the type who enjoys watching 1930s studio movies just to see how fast they can move from comedy to crime drama without blinking, then sure. If you need a script that actually tracks from start to finish? Probably skip it. It feels less like a movie and more like a series of ideas that were scribbled on a napkin during lunch. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is doing his best to be charming while he’s broke, but the movie just refuses to let him settle into a rhythm. One mi..."
Rian James, John Francis Larkin
United States
Crime, Action, Drama

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