So's Your Aunt Emma!
"Every day is April Fool's Day when the guys and dolls of gangland mistake Aunt Emma for a gun moll from Missouri!"
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Top Cast
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Zasu Pitts
Aunt Emma Bates
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Roger Pryor
Terry Connors
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Warren Hymer
Joe Gormley
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Douglas Fowley
Gus Hammond
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Gwen Kenyon
Maris
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Elizabeth Russell
Zelda LaFontaine
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Tristram Coffin
Flower Henderson
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Dick Elliott
Evans
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Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart
Mickey O’Banion
Overview
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Rating
6.7
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1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf6 Jun 26, 2022What 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 word crosses her lips; and her ability to get squiffy by just holding the glass adds a gentle, friendly, class to this simple story. There are others in the cast, but they don't - nor do they really try to - shine a candle to our "Aunt Emma".
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