Well I can't blame them for my having watched it. Nice scenes of the Southern California of my youth. Not redemptive for the purpose of stars. It gets only one from me.

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PLOT: Walter Matthau is is very successful gangster Jack~ sets up a bank robbery to look like movie ~



Jack is a gangster who evades the polices and arrives in town and sets up his next caper~ getting the local law to be "extras" his *movie* he cleverly robs a bank and escapes~ but soon the local MOB is after Jack to offer him a job~ Jack mean while is hiding out as a manual laborer~ in a fruit grove working for a pretty blonde librarian~ who is hot for Jack~ soon Jack and the blonde~ move on as a couple and Jack is onto a great caper... stealing the BOOKIES money hidden in a golf club's safe~ they take the whole safe~ now even the MOB is out to get Jack who wants to go "clean" and straight~ and off to mexico with the pretty libarian he fell in love with~~~ the DIALOG IS HOKEY~ Mattheu is very good until he has to speak~ and the plot of full of holes~ but well worth the watch once~ this could have been a great caper movie shot on a very limited budget but still a bit of tacky fun~ the robberys are very clever which is why this ended up with 3 STARS over all~

- April 5, 2012Ganster Walter Matthau is so good the mob recruits him~ 3 STARS worth watching once~