This movie is driven by one of the characters' supposedly brilliant schemes. Since these are either unexplained or senseless, and the rest of the script is dull and plodding, the simplest advice is "skip it."
Tim Channing (Victor McLaglen) catches 12 year old newsboy Dan Moran using slugs in a slot machine in his bar, but lets him go when Moran gives him a brilliant plan for taking over the town's rackets. The brilliant plan? An army of newsboys putting slugs in the other guys' slot machines. At least it's no less far-fetched than the later evidences of Moran's brilliant mind.
Ten years later, Channing, now mob boss, is putting the grownup Moran (John Baer) through law school, where he discovers an unspecified law that clears Channing of unspecified charges, and an equally mysterious one that prevents one of his henchmen from being extradited for murder.
But after graduation, Moran, now in love with a judge's high-class daughter, played with all the hauteur of a waitress in a diner by Kathleen Crowley, wants to go straight. He invents a new legitimate business, that makes no sense, for Channing, which is undermined for no reason in a way that makes no sense by Channing's associates. But don't worry, the DA's office is somehow gathering evidence by substituting pencils using a special lead in Moran's office.
Finally we get to a shootout on a ski lift (presumably because the makers of this cheapo epic had access to a ski lift), as incomprehensibly edited as the rest of the movie, and there it ends, as if a couple of guys getting shot ends everyone's legal problems.
Unfortunately the moments of unintentional comedy are too few, and the rest is just boring. There are tons of old movies available and this one is near the bottom of the list.
Tim Channing (Victor McLaglen) catches 12 year old newsboy Dan Moran using slugs in a slot machine in his bar, but lets him go when Moran gives him a brilliant plan for taking over the town's rackets. The brilliant plan? An army of newsboys putting slugs in the other guys' slot machines. At least it's no less far-fetched than the later evidences of Moran's brilliant mind.
Ten years later, Channing, now mob boss, is putting the grownup Moran (John Baer) through law school, where he discovers an unspecified law that clears Channing of unspecified charges, and an equally mysterious one that prevents one of his henchmen from being extradited for murder.
But after graduation, Moran, now in love with a judge's high-class daughter, played with all the hauteur of a waitress in a diner by Kathleen Crowley, wants to go straight. He invents a new legitimate business, that makes no sense, for Channing, which is undermined for no reason in a way that makes no sense by Channing's associates. But don't worry, the DA's office is somehow gathering evidence by substituting pencils using a special lead in Moran's office.
Finally we get to a shootout on a ski lift (presumably because the makers of this cheapo epic had access to a ski lift), as incomprehensibly edited as the rest of the movie, and there it ends, as if a couple of guys getting shot ends everyone's legal problems.
Unfortunately the moments of unintentional comedy are too few, and the rest is just boring. There are tons of old movies available and this one is near the bottom of the list.