Stand on this dot for twelve hours, prisoner!
Boy, I felt like I was standing on a dot for twelve hours, and this only runs 61 minutes! Johnny Gray is a carefree guy who gets into scrapes (i.e., speeding tickets) which of course means he's probably also a hardened criminal. He gets ten years for robbery in a mix-up but when he's eventually pardoned he decides it might be fun to be a prison warden! Huh?! Definitely a sequence of highly unlikely situations made worse by terrible acting and dialogue as clunky and wooden as a trebuchet. Here's a snippet:
Prison Guard: There are some things you better find out before you get a lot of ideas. You're here because you committed a crime. You broke a law that society saw fit to enact for its own protection.
Johnny: Somebody better pass a law to protect me from society. I was framed! What do you think about that?
Prison Guard: I don't think it's very original. Every man in here will tell you that about himself. You're here to do time. To pay a debt. We're here to see that you do.
ZZZzzzzz! I'd like to arrest Phil Rosen and everyone involved for wasting my time!
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