Monday, October 25, 2010

Gangster's Boy (1938) William Nigh.


Sorry to break it to you, but Larry Kelly is an insufferable bore of a central character:  a do-gooder high schooler, class valedictorian and aspiring West Point scholar.  When his absentee dad settles back home and it's revealed he was in the can for running beer during Prohibition, Larry becomes a pariah with his square pals.  Another Monogram dud drenched in morose sanctimoniousness, with wimpy Irish caricatures like steadfast wife Molly Kelly (!), filmed in the style of your local public access cinematographer (aka The Tripod).  Good clean fun for dingbats!


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