Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 05/13/2008
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 80 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this
comedy.
Johnny Dalton (
Frank Sinatra) and
Mildred Goodhug (
Jane Russell) are two tellers working at the same bank who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, neither is making much money, and
Johnny doesn't want to set a date until he has some savings in the bank.
Emil J. Keck (
Groucho Marx), a pal of
Johnny's who waits tables at a diner, suggests that it can't be that difficult to "find" some money in a bank, but
Johnny prefers to stay on the straight and narrow. However,
Johnny enjoys a sudden windfall after he happens upon
"Hot Horse" Harris (
Nestor Paiva), a racetrack tout being beaten up by ne'er-do-wells, and breaks up the fight. Grateful
Harris places a bet on a "can't lose" horse in
Johnny's name, and suddenly
Johnny is $60,000 richer. But before
Johnny and
Mildred can enjoy their good fortune, word leaks out that someone has embezzled $70,000 from the bank, and the suddenly prosperous
Johnny seems a likely suspect.
Double Dynamite was produced under
Howard Hughes' supervision at
RKO, but bad blood between
Hughes and
Sinatra led to "Ol' Blue Eyes" receiving third billing for the film's leading role; the film also spent over a year on the shelf before finally hitting theaters.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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