Slight Case Of Murder, A
Warner Bros. (1938)
Comedy, Crime
In Collection
#11841
0*
Seen ItYes
012569679511
IMDB   7.2
1 hr 25 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Ruth Donnelly Nora Marko
Jane Bryan Mary Marko
Edward G. Robinson Remy Marko
Allen Jenkins Mike
Willard Parker State Trooper Dick Whitewood
John Litel Mr. Post, banker
Edward Brophy Lefty
Harold Huber Giuseppe 'Gip'
Eric Stanley Mr. Ritter, banker
Paul Harvey Al Whitewood
Ted Osborne
Rosella Towne
Richard Bond
Owen King
Bobby Jordan Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
Joe Downing Innocence
Margaret Hamilton Mrs. Cagle
George E. Stone Kirk
Bert Hanlon Sad Sam
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Crane Wilbur
Steven Schachter
Producer Samuel Bischoff
Jack L. Warner
Mitch Engel
Writer Earl Baldwin
Joseph Schrank
Damon Runyon
Howard Lindsay


Prohibition's ban on booze is over, and that means bootlegger Remy Marco must make some changes. Don't go calling his beer-peddling enterprise a racket. It's now a business. Employees are no longer lugs or palookas, they're associates. And don't refer to Marco as da boss. Use sir. He's gone legit, see?

Edward G. Robinson plays Marco, spoofing his Little Caesar persona in a comedy spree based on Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's Broadway play. Lloyd Bacon, director of Robinson's gangster sendups Brother Orchid and Larceny, Inc., guides with screwball flair as corpses, creditors, the swellest of swells and more mayhem descend on Marco. Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy and Harold Huber - with 340+ career credits between them - are among the lugs-cum-associates. You're about to open a major case of laughter.
Edition Details
Distributor Warner Home Video
Release Date 7/18/2006
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Warner Night at the Movies 1938 Short Subjects Gallery:
·Vintage Newsreel
·Oscar®-Nominated Drama Short Declaration of Independence
·Classic Cartoon The Night Watchman
·Trailers of A Slight Case of Murder and 1938's The Dawn Patrol
New Featurette Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Commentary by Film Historian Robert Sklar