Advantages: Very funny, brilliant performances, imaginative and absorbing story Disadvantages: None
Starring: Paul Muni as Eddie Kagel/Judge Parker Claude Rains as Nick/The Devil Anne Baxter as Barbara Foster Hardie Albright as Smiley Williams I love classic movie actors Paul Muni and Claude Rains, and I love this unusual 1946 film which stars both of them. It's an offbeat fantasy/comedy about a gangster, Eddie Kagel, who has just been released from prison, and the pretty strange things that happen to him subsequently. Eddie's henchman and lifelong ... ...each chats about what a swell guy the other is and how they've looked after each other 'since we was kids'. Eddie asks Smiley, 'Got my rod?' Smiley answers in the affirmative. 'Lemme have it,' Eddie says. Smiley takes out Eddie's gun and lets him have it, but not the way Eddie intended. Eddie swiftly finds himself transported somewhere very hot, with fire, steaming brimstone and lost-looking people wandering around. He's very confused and it takes ...
thereddragon 11.08.2006 (31.03.2009)
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