When Mary Astor looks to sell an expensive handbag she has stolen, Edmund Lowe decides he can use someone who looks like her in his gang...and in his personal life.
The copy I looked at seems to have been a multigenerational one, pulled off a videotape, so it was a bit too blocky and low contrast to judge accurately. The movie seems to have been intended to join the down-and-dirty gangster genre that was a-building, but once you've put Edmund Lowe in top hat and tails, how dangerous can he be when Mary Astor is in an evening dress...except to Miss Astor, and she knows how to hold him off.
Although it plays on the edge of comedy for a bit, when it turns mean, it does so readily, with some shots that would be stolen for Warner's gangster cycle in the 1930s. Although the details of the images may not have come through, there are some fine, threatening compositions. Although director Irving Cummings is not well remembered, he certainly knew how to direct a movie!
The copy I looked at seems to have been a multigenerational one, pulled off a videotape, so it was a bit too blocky and low contrast to judge accurately. The movie seems to have been intended to join the down-and-dirty gangster genre that was a-building, but once you've put Edmund Lowe in top hat and tails, how dangerous can he be when Mary Astor is in an evening dress...except to Miss Astor, and she knows how to hold him off.
Although it plays on the edge of comedy for a bit, when it turns mean, it does so readily, with some shots that would be stolen for Warner's gangster cycle in the 1930s. Although the details of the images may not have come through, there are some fine, threatening compositions. Although director Irving Cummings is not well remembered, he certainly knew how to direct a movie!