A befuddling and aggravating two reeler that is part "Crime Does Not Pay" short and little bits of inserted farce, this is a puzzlement as I wonder how it's script got picked up by Educational. I sat by stone faced as Buster Keaton pretends to be a gangster as a cop chats on a payphone, hoping that he will be arrested. Keaton goes through various skits and scenarios as he attempts to be noticed, and of course, it's the most innocuous situation that gets him put in lock up. From there, it's just moments until he is involved in an escape, rolling off a truck, wearing a barrel, and crashing into a large group of escapees. I found it just unbelievable and uninteresting, a mixture of themes that doesn't do anything but sit there, water on the bottom, oil on the top.
Review of Jail Bait
Jail Bait
(1937)
Mixture of gangster/prison drama and farce doesn't seem to work.
28 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers