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A Slight Case of Murder is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 5 march 1938 with Edward G. Robinson
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
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Add to a movie listA Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G. Robinson spoofing his own gangster image as Remy Marco.
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With the end of Prohibition, bootlegger Remy Marko becomes a legitimate brewer; but he slowly goes broke because the beer he makes tastes terrible, and everyone is afraid to tell him so. After four years, with bank officers preparing to foreclose on the brewery, he retreats to his Saratoga summer home, only to find four dead mobsters who meant to ambush him, but were killed by their confederate whom they meant to betray. More and more problems begin to pop up in the life of the former bootlegger, as he has taken in a bratty orphan, and his daughter comes home with a fiancé that turns out to be a state cop.Actors
Edward G. Robinson
(Remy Marko)
Jane Bryan
(Mary Marko)
Allen Jenkins
(Mike)
Ruth Donnelly
(Nora Marko)
John Litel
(Mr. Post, banker)
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