A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Directors

Lloyd Bacon

Cast

Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Parker, John Litel

The story

With the end of Prohibition, bootlegger Remy Marco (shown as "Marko" in one sequence) becomes a legitimate brewer, but he slowly goes broke because the beer that 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 with his daughter Mary coming home from school. Remy also takes along an orphan from his old stomping grounds, only to find four dead mobsters who had planned to ambush him but were killed by another gang member, who lurks around the residence.

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