Set in 1920s Chicago, it is the time of the bootleggers and gangsters. Big Sam Dunleavy (George Mathews) is a lug just back from doing two hits in Miami.
He loves his cat, bird and his girl Goldie (Beverly Michaels) but she has ditched hi. Tonight Sam is going to run her out, he just needs an alibi. There is a cop hot on his tail.
Nightclub owner Barney (George E Stone) agrees to provide a watertight alibi for a price of £2500. Sam will be playing cards with him all night in a back room while Sam quietly slips away.
Only there is no hit of Goldie, she thinks on her feet and manages to talk herself out of certain death. Sam has to go and rejoin Barney.
Sam's big problem is, Barney's penchant of cleaning his gun misfires.
This is a nice character piece, Mathews does a good portrait of Big Sam who loves his pets and might just be a bit dim. The ending though is not that watertight. After all there would be no fingerprints of Sam on the gun.
He loves his cat, bird and his girl Goldie (Beverly Michaels) but she has ditched hi. Tonight Sam is going to run her out, he just needs an alibi. There is a cop hot on his tail.
Nightclub owner Barney (George E Stone) agrees to provide a watertight alibi for a price of £2500. Sam will be playing cards with him all night in a back room while Sam quietly slips away.
Only there is no hit of Goldie, she thinks on her feet and manages to talk herself out of certain death. Sam has to go and rejoin Barney.
Sam's big problem is, Barney's penchant of cleaning his gun misfires.
This is a nice character piece, Mathews does a good portrait of Big Sam who loves his pets and might just be a bit dim. The ending though is not that watertight. After all there would be no fingerprints of Sam on the gun.