Whipsaw (1935)

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A cop (Spencer Tracy) plays a con game on a jewel thief's accomplice (Myrna Loy) to get her to take him to the prime suspect? On paper, Whipshaw seems tailor-made for me and my interests. (In movies, I don't practice the gentlemanly arts of roof-climbing and grifting myself.) Bit of a complicated set-up, but once we're past it, it's certainly got its moments, and you may know where it's expected to go in the romance department, it still manages some surprises on a plot level. In other words, it's NICELY complicated. I just wish it had a little more fun. Tracy's character holds up his end, but Loy's is rather serious, a kind of hard dame you'd expect in Film Noir, but this isn't that either. A couple of directorial mistakes make me wonder if Sam Wood was just sitting there and letting the Marx Brothers call the shots in his collaborations with them, because I've yet to see one of his films that wasn't a bit of a let down despite their star power. 1 year 7 months ago