Agrega una trama en tu idioma"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy person... Leer todo"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy person and insists that Babe give up women and liquor. Through a car accident with his buddies "... Leer todo"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy person and insists that Babe give up women and liquor. Through a car accident with his buddies "Kid" McGurn and "Ratsy" Harris, Fingers gets a job with billionaire John Dudley Masterson,... Leer todo
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- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Attorney Carp
- (as Ed Van Sloan)
- Anderson
- (escenas eliminadas)
- Mrs. Jackson
- (escenas eliminadas)
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This is a piece of the era, a time before the code, deep in the depression. A time when it was clear (as it is now) that a whole nation suffers so a few can get rich. A time when it was noble to think of a little, exceedingly simple Joe standing up bigtime moneymen.
It was a time when the US was pretty close to flipping into communism of some stripe.
The story involves a guy in the fight business. An older, retired fighter who is dumber now than when born. He's a trainer, which in those days also meant masseur. He's a con. Reliable James Gleason plays his con sidekick, East Side accent jabbering.
There's a brother and a rich man's daughter. Big oil swindles. Intimidation and killing. All ordinary and uninteresting.
What IS interesting as all getout is that this was made at all, the palooka who brings down the big bosses in front of the people's senate no less.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
A car accident led an ex-con named Frank 'Fingers' Partos (Robert Armstrong) to become the massage and fitness man for a rich businessman named John Dudley Masterson (Frank Morgan). Fingers wasn't too bright, but he was smart enough to know to invest his money in the stocks he overheard John and his rich friends talking about. He had a good thing going until his brother, Babe (Frank Albertson), started dating Masterson's daughter, Doris (Constance Cummings). Masterson was dead set against it and he would financially ruin Fingers if it meant prying his daughter away from Babe.
The romance between Doris and Babe set off the dramatic events that followed, but it wasn't the primary focus of the plot. It was one of those rich girl/poor boy romances where Hollywood wants us to believe that rich girls truly fall in love with peppy paupers. Call me a cynic, but I don't think hardly any such romances are real love. I think they're nothing more than bored young women who are attracted to something different and confuse their excitement with love (that includes Rose from "The Titanic"). The other portion of them do it because they have daddy issues and they want to spite their overbearing fathers. What's left are the paltry few that are truly in love while Hollywood writers make it seem as though they are the rule, not the exception.
TBDS was not about that romance and it shouldn't have distracted me so, but I can't help it. I see the cliche rich girl/poor boy romance and it's like nails on a chalkboard. The main issue was a country being bilked by an elite cabal, and the lowly whistleblower who could take them down. I liked that aspect of the film, however it was a little too trite. As brilliant as Masterson was, he was equally clumsy, inattentive, and tactless. If all masterminds were as bungling as him when it comes to perpetrating billion dollar schemes, we could easily lock them all up.
TBDS did have a good cast in spite of the basic plot. Along with Armstrong, Cummings, and Frank Morgan, there was James Gleason, Irving Pichel, Warren Hymer, Sidney Toler, Berton Churchill, Purnell Pratt, and Ralf Harolde--all veterans.
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- TriviaA nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 21 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1