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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Baby Face Morgan (1942)

An American comedy crime film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.
Acall goes out to criminals across the United States. Their leader has died and they need a new boss to keep business running. An innocent and ignorant young man is chosen because of his name and put into a fake office.
The short scenes don't communicate the plot clearly enough. It feels like the viewer is thrown into the middle of something and given no information about what's going on. The plot is (hence) very muddy and style is effected by this film-making choice as well. Because so many short scenes are used, they all show gangsters in different locations and characters can not be established either. I watched about 45 minutes of it and had to turn this off because I still didn't know what was going on. I have to rate it shit for being so confusing that I turned it off.

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