4/10
Asinine outrageousness opens promisingly before turning its cast into bungling sillies...
31 January 2011
Screenwriters R.S. Allen and Harvey Bullock have an original, potentially-great comic idea here--wily accountant at the U.S. Mint in Washington, D.C. has to break in after-hours and replace money he accidentally destroyed--but debuting director Howard Morris gives it a numbskull treatment, with the plot advanced on the proviso that every outrageous character on-screen act as stupidly as possibly. Jim Hutton is supposed to be playing a mild-mannered swinger skilled in the art of getting what he wants without paying for it, but there's nothing in this soft-edged, colorless actor that even begins to suggest these attributes. His cohorts in crime (played to the hilt by comedic veterans, mainstays, and newcomers) are a useless, selfish bunch who keep increasing their share of the action for personal gain--and is there anything less funny on the screen than greed? *1/2 from ****
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