mark.waltz Review of Sneak Easily

Sneak Easily (1932)

Irregardless of whether you like it or not, you must realize that it is a bomb of various kinds of explosives.

[5/10 · 27 November 2019]

The team of Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts are together here as an attorney for the defense and a juror who ironically are roommates (dismissible in most courts for the juror), involved in a silly case of the presumed murder of a silly scientists wife who allegedly blew up as a result of a bomb she accidentally swallowed. Somehow, Zasu swallows another explosive and must be rushed to the scientists house for the antidote. This leads to a very funny chase through the Hollywood Hills and an amusing, if a bit of a let-down, of s conclusion. Like we've seen in the Laurel and Hardy shorts (and a few features), there were often violent but hysterically funny endings that left one or the other (or both) in some weird transformation. I guess you couldn't do that in 1932 with female characters, even if Zasu Pitts is a female of her own single mode.