Maybe it's the cynical world we live in in 2018, but I found the idea of two ordinary Brooklyn mugs going to Washington DC and dropping in on the president without so much as a security issue to be completely absurd. It all deals with their desire to free an ordinary Postman Walter Brennan charged destroying US mail, and comparing it with what was going on over in Germany in 1939. Brennan is being bullied by a thug who happens to be the son of the woman he loves (Marsha Hunt), having years before stolen Brennan's mailbag. William Gargan and Ann Sothern are the Turps, pretty much on the outside of the story, having been young Brooklyn kids when Brennan was courting Hunt before she decided to marry someone else.
Told through flashbacks after a lengthy prologue where Gargan and Sothern try to find local justice then go to D.C. where with little effort they end up in the oval office. Well meaning but completely unrealistic, this situation wouldn't get the Turps in their city councilman's office let alone the president's. They bully D.C. cops and White House staff in their attempts to get in to see Stone, sitting down the entire time to represent FDR (his character has no name other than president) who treats them as if they didn't disturb his more important appointments. I can't believe this story came from the mind of Damon Runyeon let alone made it past the writers building at MGM in
Told through flashbacks after a lengthy prologue where Gargan and Sothern try to find local justice then go to D.C. where with little effort they end up in the oval office. Well meaning but completely unrealistic, this situation wouldn't get the Turps in their city councilman's office let alone the president's. They bully D.C. cops and White House staff in their attempts to get in to see Stone, sitting down the entire time to represent FDR (his character has no name other than president) who treats them as if they didn't disturb his more important appointments. I can't believe this story came from the mind of Damon Runyeon let alone made it past the writers building at MGM in