Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Meet 'em all! Love 'em all!
장르 : 코미디
상영시간 : 1시간 26분
연출 : Roy Del Ruth
각본 : James O'Hanlon
시놉시스
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
모든 범죄에 극심한 혐오심을 느끼는 형사 마크 딕슨. 이러한 극심한 범죄에 대한 증오는 범죄자들에 대한 극도의 편견으로 공권력 남용에 까지 이르게 된다. 또한 그의 아버지가 범법자이기에 그는 경찰로서의 경력에 누가 될까 정신적으로 괴로워한다. 어느 날 경찰들이 토미 스켈리의 아파트에서 벌어지는 불법도박 게임의 현장을 덮쳤을 때 시신 한 구를 발견하게 되고 그들은 사기 도박꾼 켄 패니를 살인용의자로 지목한다. 딕슨은 패니를 추적하고 스켈리에게 죄를 뒤집어쓰게 하려고 그를 설득하는 중 급기야 그를 죽이게 되고 그 시신을 처리하는 과정에서 택시운전자 지그 테일러에게 잡히는 것을 간신히 모면하게 되는데...
뉴욕의 가난한 사과 장수 애니는 태어나자마자 스페인의 수녀원으로 보내졌던 딸 루이즈에게 늘 편지를 쓰는데, 편지 속 애니는 뉴욕 상류층의 귀부인이다. 어느 날, 결혼을 앞둔 루이즈가 약혼자 카를로스와 예비 시아버지 로메로 백작과 함께 뉴욕을 방문하겠다고 하는데, 애니는 자신의 실체가 드러나면 딸의 결혼이 무산될지도 모른다는 두려움에 떤다. 한편, 애니의 사과는 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿는 멋쟁이 도박꾼 데이브가 기꺼이 애니를 돕기로 한다. 루이즈 일행이 뉴욕항에 도착하는 날, 애니는 E. 워딩턴 맨빌 부인이 되어 그들을 맞이한다. 카프라와 만나 ‘카프리스킨 터치’를 만들어낸 각본가 로버트 리스킨이 데이먼 러니언의 단편을 각색했다. 이 작품으로 카프라는 흥행 감독의 위치를 공고히 했으며, 처음으로 아카데미상 후보에 오르기도 했다. (영화의 전당)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorising a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth. As a result, the owner's young daughter is raped, and the violence continues. Discovering that the gang is associated with drug dealers, Palmieri is forbidden to continue investigating his case by his superior - so he takes matters into his own hands. Palmieri recruits a couple of men who have become victims of the gang and sets out for a bloody revenge.
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!