Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Dec 2, 1941 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the bakery, Gloves stumbles into a Nazi spy ring, masterminded by Conrad Veidt. Mixed up in all this is nightclub singer Kaaren Verne, whose loyalties are in question in her early scenes but who turns out to be as true-blue as the patriotic Gloves.
Unrated, 1 hr. 47 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Comedy
Dec 2, 1941 Wide
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)
Bogart is great in this comedy thriller, which was made during WWII and was much ahead of its time in narrative and tone.
Boisterous Warner Bros. action comedy about Nazis in Manhattan
Enjoyable WWII propaganda made by great cast and slick direction
A patriotic Runyonesque spy spoof.
This film was the bridge for Bogie between The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca and is quite an odd duck of a movie. An at times uneasy mixture of crime drama, nazi threat propaganda and comedy it is strongest in the comedy element with some of the great Warners stock company doing what they do best. You just can not beat
July 28, 2011
Super Reviewer
The synopsis sounds funny, but this movie is really great. It has a good cast, and an interesting story.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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