Thursday, August 3, 2017

A slight case of murder (1938) - little known satire on racketeering directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Edward G. Robinson

Rating 7.2/10
Runtime: 85 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030764/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Remy Marco
Jane Bryan ... Mary Marco
Allen Jenkins ... Mike
Ruth Donnelly ... Nora Marco
Willard Parker ... Dick Whitewood
John Litel ... Post
Edward Brophy ... Lefty
Harold Huber ... Giuseppe
Eric Stanley ... Ritter
Paul Harvey ... Mr. Whitewood

Description: Remy Marco, Prohibition beer baron, figures he'll do even better after repeal. Only trouble is, his beer tastes terrible, he drinks no beer himself and nobody dares tell him. Four years later, when he's about bankrupt, he visits his summer home in Saratoga, complete with: 1) a dead-end-kid orphan; 2) his daughter's fiance...a state trooper!, 3) the bodies of four gangsters who planned to ambush Remy but had a shootout; 4) half a million in loot they hid in the house...just the amount Remy needs to get out of hock. The comic confusion mounts...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzph8sb3Hdu_NVBQazJKcGl3dms


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.16 GB, 3622 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 720x480 ~> 720x540 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 120
Audio : 117/49 MB (main/commentary), 192/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channel(s), 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English, Spanish, French closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Serbian, Greek) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Robert Sklar. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, commentary on Track 2)