6/10
The always eponymous Warner Bros. use this flick to warn America . . .
7 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
. . . about the incoming tidal wave of mercenary moms willing to rat out their sons to the coppers if it will put another nickel in their cash coffers. Ex-con "Angel Harrington" informs his money-bags heiress main squeeze "Gennie" that her mom has $90,000 stashed away (or $3.7 million, adjusted for inflation). This information later prompts the heartless Gennie to send her mentally-disabled brother "Harry" up the river by fingering him for murder. (Having just one other sibling, Gennie--a math genius by local standards--figures out that gaining an inheritance of about two million bucks Today sure beats raking in a measly $30,000 in 1931!) Ma, the grasping arcade miser, is overjoyed to swap out her just-fired hired help--Angel--for the son she doomed from his start, Harry (the victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, she says more than once during SINNER'S HOLIDAY). As the cops are chortling that "there's more than one way to roast a weenie" while prepping Harry for the hot squat, his callous ma is laughing all the way to the river bank (or wherever it is that she keeps her cold, hard stash). Surely Warner Bros.' prophetic prognosticators are keeping Today's Third Lady's third son (counting the Capitol Steps) in mind with SINNER'S HOLIDAY.
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