So's Your Aunt Emma!

1942

1h 2m

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6.5/10

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Comedy

Crime

A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

Directors

Jean Yarbrough

Writers

Edmond Kelso(screenplay by)

George Bricker(screenplay by)

Harry Hervey(story by)

Stars

Zasu Pitts

Roger Pryor

Warren Hymer

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Top cast

Aunt Emma Bates

Terry Connors

Joe Gormley

Gus Hammond

Maris

Zelda LaFontaine

Flower Henderson

Evans

Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart

Mickey O’Banion

Stanley Blystone

Detective Miller

Eleanor Counts

Gracie

Jack Mulhall

Burns

Directors

Jean Yarbrough

Writers

Edmond Kelso(screenplay by)

George Bricker(screenplay by)

Harry Hervey(story by)

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What makes this daft little crime thriller so much fun, is the underlying premiss that even the nastiest of criminal types will still defer to a determined, feisty old lady - even if they would otherwise happily pull out the teeth of their enemies with a blunt screwdriver! Zasu Pitts is just such an old spinster, who becomes ensnared with a gang who are rigging boxing matches before unexpectedly (and really completely implausibly) being implicated with the deadly murderess "Ma Parker"! It's a lovely, simple little yarn - peppered with some wonderfully Mary Poppins-esque language; never a cuss word crosses her lips; and her ability to get squiffy by just holding the glass adds a gentle, friendly, class to this simple story. There are others in the cast, but they don't - nor do they really try to - shine a candle to our "Aunt Emma".

Geronimo196726 Jun, 2022