A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER.
Edward G Robinson & Jane Bryan,
Ruth Donnelly, Allen Jenkins, Harold Huber.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon, 1938, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
Now this movie sounds wonderful. I haven't seen it but Eddy Robinson was always great at satirising his own grotesque creations.

"The critics adored the film. While the studio promoted it as 'Edward G Robinson in Damon Runyon's blazing story of the mobster who murdered and laughed', the critics recognised it as the full-fledged farce it was. Any way he looked at it, Robinson realised he was back on top."
- Alan Gansberg, E G Robinson biographer.

REVIEWS:
"Nothing funnier has been produced by Hollywood for a long time... a mirthful and hilarious whimsy."
- Variety.
"The complications crazily mount, sentiment never raises its ugly head, a long nose is made at violence and death."
- Graham Greene.