
Quality Street
1937


“Every day is April Fool's Day when the guys and dolls of gangland mistake Aunt Emma for a gun moll from Missouri!”
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A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Director
Jean YarbroughWriters
Streaming availability for India
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English
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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…
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