The Weekly Planet - The Worst Robin Hood Movie - Caravan Of Garbage
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This was a depressing week for me.
Oh, yes.
Because a while back you lost
your house i lost my house now a while back we did a video on the original oceans 11 starring
the rack pack and it was just awful like it's an awful experience to watch it i didn't enjoy
talking about it people really enjoyed i love talking about it but it's an excruciating watch
and again we're not we're not people who are like
oh movies
all old movies are bad
like there are movies
from that era that are great
that one is no good
no good
and the one we're talking about
this week
is also no good
now are we doing this
because there's a Robin Hood movie
coming out
correct
so in the vaguest of links possible
and in an attempt
to just watch another
terrible Rat Pack based movie
we're watching Robin we watched Robin and the Seven Hoods.
1964.
It came off the back of Ocean's Eleven.
They were churning these out back in the day.
And it's basically like Ocean's Eleven.
It's just about a bunch of drunk men just kind of ambling through a plot
that's barely there.
Yes, exactly.
It dispersed with songs.
More songs than Ocean's Eleven.
And I quite like a lot of the songs in this.
But this is...
It's worse in a lot of ways.
I think it's better initially.
I'm like, I'm pleasantly surprised by this for about an hour.
And then I was like, oh, this keeps going, doesn't it?
It really does.
Again, I don't know how these were written
or how they were pitched to the Rat Pack
or how much that was involved.
None of that happened.
There was no writing or pitching.
Because it also, and we'll get to it,
but it's also one of those movies,
it just ends a bunch of times.
Yeah.
It should end at the hour mark.
What I think is they had one idea for a thing to happen.
Like they had this one big event that happens, this one big set piece, and it happens right
in the middle.
And I think they were like, now let's just wander around until the plot has us do that
thing.
And then afterwards we'll just wander around for a bit more.
And I'm like, just end it there.
Yeah, it's a great place to end.
That's how it should have ended, at the one hour mark.
Make it a breezy hour 20, you know what I mean?
I agree.
Two hours this movie was
It's really long
And I watched it in bursts
Because I couldn't sit through it
So to me it felt like it went for nine hours
Yeah right
Because that's how long it took me to get through it
I felt it
You know how they say
If you stand ten feet from a wall
And then you walk half the distance
And then you walk half the distance again
And then you walk half the distance again
You'll never get to the wall
That's how I felt with this movie
I got to the halfway point And I'm like oh i'm halfway there and then like 10 minutes passed
and i'm like i'm still at the halfway mark and then another 20 minutes passed i'm like i'm still
at the halfway mark what happened but at the very start the start mark it's it's a mob film
sort of i mean it is but it's a really terrible mob film. It's a terrible mob film, and it's also a terrible...
As an adaptation of the Robin Hood mythos,
it's also very vague and bad.
Yeah.
Like, they've incorporated, like, two of the elements of Robin Hood.
Yes.
And nothing else.
We'll get to that, though.
Because there's a moment where I'm thinking,
what has this got to do with Robin Hood?
And then they do it.
Yeah.
And then it's like, oh, I guess.
And they've named some of the characters
after Robin Hood characters
but most of them aren't.
Most of them aren't, yeah.
But anyway,
it starts with a mob birthday
or boithday
for the lead mob guy
and he blows out his candles
and they're clearly assisted
in doing so.
I don't know if you noticed that.
I did, yeah.
But somebody's blowing them
from off screen.
I mean, that's a
60-ish year old man
in the 60s
who, again,
smokes five packs a day.
Yeah.
He's not blowing out a whole bunch of candles by himself.
He's absolutely not.
And he does a speech where he's like, look, I'm a good boss and I don't make you guys work on holidays and I'm a great guy.
And they all toast him.
And then everybody from every table gets up and shoots him at once.
You don't see any bullet holes.
You don't see any squibs at all.
No, he just kind of goes, wait, what?
This must maybe was the days before squibs.
It might have been, yeah.
I think the big squib moment maybe was like, remember Bonnie and Clyde?
Okay, yeah.
That was from the 80s, yeah.
Yeah, but they were doing like Good and Bad and the Ugly in those films around then.
So there was something.
But I think also back in the day,
somebody would just get shot, like one bullet,
and they'd grab their chest and they'd go,
and it wouldn't really be a thing.
But if you're being shot like 40 times,
surely there should be a noticeable bullet wound.
Maybe just one big one.
Because everybody's such a good shot,
they all get it in the one hole.
So the mob wants to reunite and bring everybody in together and they want Robbo in as well.
Robbo is the Frank Sinatra character.
Also, what I enjoyed about this movie is that Robbo
is the quintessential Australian bloke name.
It is.
Robbo, Macca and Buff are probably the most common Australian names.
So the idea that there's a guy called Robbo in an American movie
and they're constantly calling him Robbo was quite funny.
It's pretty great.
But also, what's interesting about this,
I feel the most charming character in this is probably Peter Falk's character.
Yeah, Columbo.
Guy Gisborne.
Yeah.
Again, one of the names they use from the Robin Hood,
but most of the others they don't.
Also, this scene is where we get the first musical number.
Yes.
And it's not good.
It's all for one and one for all.
Look, it's not all for one, all for love.
No, that's true.
But also, if I didn't know this was a musical,
it would have taken me maybe a minute and a half
to figure out they were doing a song.
They were doing that, yeah.
Because Peter Falk is not a great singer.
No.
And there's not really any music to open it.
And all of those guys, I think some of them are real mob guys.
So they're not singers.
I only feel comfortable saying that because they're probably all dead now.
They're definitely all dead.
But it's just a whole bunch of guys who can't sing, singing in a chorus.
Like 20 guys being like...
So his plan is to take over the mob and take 50% from everybody.
So he's robbing from gangsters.
And we're supposed to care, I guess?
This gangster who's robbing from other gangsters, that's unfair.
I don't give a fuck.
All these people should be dead.
Yeah.
But also, here's the thing.
Why'd they all kill the guy they liked?
I don't know.
Because he seemed to be fair,
and he never made him work on holidays.
And this new guy's like,
and I'm going to take 50% of your business.
And they're like, oh, boo.
But you all shot the first guy.
What were you thinking?
How did he convince you?
Just shoot him as well shoot him
as well there's only one of him and there's like 20 of you uh maybe maybe the hierarchy is determined
by how well you can sing it could very well be and he's peter fork is not the best singer yeah
but he's better than them but he's not as good as frank sinatra that's right who rolls more charming
than plank of wood frank sinatra that'sank Sinatra, as I call him.
So he comes in, he's like, why'd you kill the old boss?
He was the best boss and you're not a good boss.
And Columbo's like, I'm just going to call him Columbo.
Is that fine?
Yep.
He's like, listen, Robbo, we've got more guys than you.
You've only got like a small band of merry men on your side.
Maybe half a dozen guys, but we've got 80 mobsters or whatever.
And he's like, I'm not going to join your bloody crew.
I'm Plank Sinatra.
Plank Sinatra.
I won't do it.
So then they all go to the mob boss's funeral,
they all shot, and threats are made. They'll fire their guns in the air.
They'll fire their guns in the air.
There's a family singing over a grave not far from them
that keeps interrupting the speech.
Which is a joke, I think.
I think it's a joke.
There's a lot of things there's no punchline there's a lot of things in this in this movie and maybe the sense of humor and
it was different in the 60s but there's a lot of stuff in this where i only know it's a joke after
the fact like they'll do it and i'll be like there'll be maybe a two second beat and i'm like
oh that was a joke i thought they were gonna go over and shoot them or somebody would be pushed into an open grave.
I don't know, but there's nothing.
So anyway, we see Dean Martin.
He's at a club, as everybody always is in these films.
And he's playing pool and he's poking a girl in the butt
with the pool cue.
He's so smooth.
Just the smoothest manoeuvre.
So what are you getting out of that?
As a man, what are you getting out of by poking a girl in a butt with a pool cue nothing it's just weird it's just a weird
power play so leave it alone d-mon has that ever worked mate for him probably just be like hey it's
me d-mon good enough yeah yeah so then robbo bumps into him and there's like there's like threats but
then there's a mutual respect because clearly they just know each other from real life.
That's very evident in this movie.
And they play a game of pool for $1,000 a ball
and $25,000 for the winner.
If you've ever wanted to see a real slow-moving pool game
operating in real time.
But it's also, they do trick shots,
but they're not that impressive.
And for a lot of the trick shots,
they'll just cut away to Sammy Davis Jr.
going, look at my shitless shot for surprise.
None of the trick shots are particularly good.
Every one of them, I'm like,
I'm not good at pool, but I think I could do that.
But see, back in the day.
But also, what I think I'm going with there is like,
again, you can tell it's a movie from the 60s
because they play out the whole thing.
A scene where one dude gets hustled by another dude in a game of pool should be 20 seconds yeah right it's a montage and a
couple of trick shots and the guy getting hustled going and then sammy davis jr going right but you
don't want i don't want to see it for five minutes no but also while he's doing this he's singing a
song and i had to write this down because i couldn't believe it but it's about a man who
loves his mother being good enough for me so that's what Dean Martin's saying basically I don't know
what that what is what does that mean though is it Sinatra is the man good enough I don't I don't
I don't know I don't know it's just a song that he was famous for at the time okay right yeah anyway
fine so Dean Martin wins and then uh instead of killing him and getting the money back
yeah
Frank Sinatra
Plank Sinatra
gets him on his crew
and he's little John
yeah
Dean Martin is little John
but we're just going to
call him
Dean Martin
but where's everybody else
where's Friar Tuck
there's no Friar Tuck
there's no Friar Tuck
yeah
so anyway
they decide to go after
Columbo
Columbo
Gisborne
Columbo
Columbo
yeah
Columborn yeah so but at the same time Columbo decides Gisborne. Columbo. Columbo, yeah. Columborn.
Yeah, so, but at the same time,
Columbo decides to go after Frank Sinatra.
And what we get, this is the idea of a mob hit from,
it's set in the 30s, the 20s or the 30s,
but it's made in the 60s, obviously.
They just run into each other's clubs with axes.
And smash it up.
And just smash it up.
It's pretty funny.
And they do it at the same time.
Exactly the same time.
At each other, yeah. Uh time yeah and then uh after the clubs
are all smashed up sammy davis jr sings a song about how he loves shooting his gun yep he's got
a six shooter he's got two six shooters but he shoots i don't know 40 bullets maybe without
reloading but it's insane and it's also a song sung by a man who's clearly lost his mind who's gonna accidentally shoot himself oh absolutely that's where that's going anyway it's insane. And it's also a song sung by a man who's clearly lost his mind
who's going to accidentally
shoot himself.
Oh, absolutely.
That's where that's going.
Anyway, it's kind of fun though.
Sure.
Yeah.
Some of the Rat Pack
are quite talented.
Yes.
So they decide to make
Robbo,
Plank Sinatra,
decides to make
a 100%
knock-proof club
which I assumed
would be
something like
tables that you'd hit
with an axe
and it
wouldn't work. As is tradition. Yeah.
You know, like that Bond movie where his car's
indestructible and they're trying to break into it.
It's not that. We'll get to what it is.
But it's going to cost $400,000,
which is a lot of money back then.
And now, some would even say. So then
Marion shows up, who's the son of
the gangster who was shot at the start.
And Frank Sinatra, sorry, is like, I've never seen you before.
Where you been, sweetheart?
I should know because I knew, I knew bloody.
I never met some beautiful broad with a great set of pins.
Hey.
And she's like, I've just been away at private school or whatever.
And I'm like, private school?
How old?
So I looked it up.
She's 37.
She was 37 at the time of this film.
Sure.
I mean, everybody here, I guess, is supposed to be 32,
but they all look 55.
That's what we've established in these films.
Everyone is 55 and then they die.
That's the rule.
So she's a real youthful name in this if she's only 37.
37, yeah.
So anyway, she wants her father's death avenged
and she offers Plank Sinatra 50K to kill the sheriff
who's in lead with Columbo.
And he's like, I don't do that.
I may be a mobster, but I'm not a murderer.
Okay.
What kind of mobster are you?
I'm not really sure.
Is he a good guy?
Not really.
No.
But what kind of mobster is he?
Yeah.
He just runs.
Like a place where you can gamble.
He could just run a legitimate business.
He could just do that.
Yeah.
Probably get in a business.
Open a shop.
Maybe.
So the way she invites him to dinner and she's like,
if you kill that guy,
I'll bloody have sex with you.
And he's like,
not bloody, not likely, sweetheart.
I bloody love a girl.
You know that better than anybody else.
But let me tell you,
I'm not bloody a student.
Rest in a gamze.
Gamze all the way up to your armpits.
I tell you what.
No, no thanks, sister.
So Columbo decides to put the sheriff in a...
Headlock.
In a cornerstone for the new police station so because it's the
30s or the 20s or whenever this is set whenever a big stone gets put in front of a building the
whole town shows up because that was television that was something to do that was entertainment
back then yeah uh the police chief is like thanks everybody for coming out uh listen the sheriff
couldn't be here
because he was called out of town.
I'm assuming there was no foul play involved
with his disappearance.
And the gangsters were like,
foul play?
I reckon there was some.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ah.
The mayor's like,
you might say he was the cornerstone of this city.
And they're like,
ha, ha, ha, cornerstone.
Literally.
That's where we put him.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha. Sure hope he wasn't murdered. He was murdered. We did it. Ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha, cornerstone. Literally. That's where we put him. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.
Sure hope he wasn't murdered.
He was murdered.
We did it.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You'd think there'd be somebody in the crowd who's like,
wait a minute, these guys, I think they,
somebody look in there.
Somebody look in there.
Look at that stone.
So anyway, there's no repercussions for murdering the sheriff.
It never really comes up again.
He threatens to murder Robbo.
He's like, Robbo, you better pay because
you've got to give me that 50%, baby.
I got 50% gams up to my bloody whatever.
It's the 30s or it's the 20s. I don't know.
Whatever it is, give me that goddamn money, you son of a bitch.
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I won't do it.
So anyway, this is where it starts to drag.
It turns out that Marion thinks that Robbo, sorry, Plank Sinatra, did murder the sheriff, but he didn't.
So she gives Robbo the 50k.
And he's like, I don't take money from no broad, I'll tell you that much. Gams are no gams, I ain't taking that money. that Robbo, sorry, Plank Sinatra, did murder the sheriff, but he didn't. So she gives Robbo the 50K.
And he's like, I don't take money from no broad,
I'll tell you that much, this is what I am. Gams are no gams, I ain't taking that money.
Don't take that sweet dough from that sweet gams.
So he gives it to the poor.
He's like, give it to charity.
Give it to literally any charity.
Throw it in a bin, I don't give a shit.
I don't want it.
So they give it to charity.
And then a man, a very small man,
with a newspaper, is shouting out the headline that Robbo's
given to the rich is the new Robin Hood.
He's given to the poor.
If you thought Robin Hood was good, Robbo's the new Robin Hood.
And it's confusing because that means that in this universe, prior to these events, hundreds
of years in the past, there wasn't the very least the legend of Robin Hood, who was a real guy, right?
Or at least a folklore.
Like in our world.
Like in our world.
And all his men existed.
But yet, in this universe also, there's a guy called Robbo,
and there's also a Little John, and a Marion, and a Guy Gizmon, and a Will Scarlet.
What is happening?
And nobody notices.
Nobody's like,
oh yeah,
Little John,
like Robin Hood.
Isn't that a weird coincidence?
Yeah, these movies
are not self-aware.
Nobody says...
But I mean,
you can't blame them, really.
I can blame them.
Okay, good.
So anyway,
he just starts sending money
to anybody who asks.
Again,
what kind of gangster
is this guy?
What kind of gangster is he?
So Alan Dale comes in.
It's Bing Crosby.
It's Bing Crosby.
Who, by the way, is great in this movie.
He's really good.
Here's a fun fact about this.
I don't know if you're aware of this.
So this movie features most of the Rat Pack.
The previous one also featured Peter Lawford,
who you might remember as one of those guys.
It doesn't matter.
You might remember him as one of those guys
with a weird haircut and an ill-fitting suit
in the previous Ocean's Eleven.
He's not in this one
because him and Sinatra had a falling out.
He was going to be this role, but apparently Peter Lawford's brother-in-law
was President Kennedy.
Peter Lawford's brother-in-law is John F. Kennedy.
And wasn't Kennedy shot during when they were making this film?
No, he was shot in...
Oh, he might have been.
No, he was shot in 63. Yeah, but have been... No, he was shot in 63.
Yeah, but this came out in 64.
Okay, right.
I think he was.
I think there was a bit of a...
I remember reading about like a black cloud
over this whole production.
Interesting.
Because they were all mates.
Well, that's the thing.
That's not why it happened.
That's not why there was a falling out.
So apparently,
Peter Lawford arranged for John F. Kennedy
to make a visit to Frank Sinatra's house.
And Frank Sinatra built a helipad at his house so John F. Kennedy to make a visit to Frank Sinatra's house. And Frank Sinatra built a helipad at his house
so John F. Kennedy could visit.
And then John F. Kennedy's advisors were like,
you shouldn't go visit Frank Sinatra
because he's connected to the mob and it'll look weird.
Yeah.
So Kennedy didn't go visit.
And so Sinatra blamed Peter Lawford
for not convincing John F. Kennedy
to come and land on the helipad. And then Lawford and Sinatra never Peter Lawford for not convincing John F. Kennedy to come and land on the helipad.
And then Lawford and Sinatra never spoke again.
So Bing Crosby was given that role instead.
But here's the thing.
John F. Kennedy, instead of visiting Frank Sinatra on that day,
visited Bing Crosby.
So why didn't he blame Bing Crosby?
Good questions.
Sinatra's a real
weirdo.
They were all
drunk.
Yeah they were all
I guess that's
probably true yeah.
So anyway Bing
Crosby decides to
be he's going to
be he's an
account man who's
going to he's going
to give all the
money to charity
and sort out where
it goes because he's
from an orphanage.
They're like what
do you want to and
he's like I was an
orphan for 26 years and I was hoping to get adopted for 26 years. So he's from an orphanage. They're like, what do you want to... And he's like, I was an orphan for 26 years
and I was hoping to get adopted
for 26 years.
So he's supposed to be 40 in this?
I guess.
He's not though.
They're all 55.
We've talked about this.
That's true, yeah.
So I guess that's a joke
that he wanted to be adopted
for 26 years.
That's one of those jokes.
That's one of those famous jokes, yeah.
And then...
I feel like a lot of these jokes
could have been salvageable
if they were sold as jokes or if they were edited as if they were jokes.
Or if the people telling them knew that they were jokes
and weren't just reading lines.
I think maybe in the 60s, these guys, Sinatra and those guys especially,
were very accustomed to just saying anything
and then cocking their arm with a cigarette
and then everybody would laugh because
it was sinatra and people like ha ha ha you're so funny for it well you're not i feel comfortable
saying that now he's dead he wasn't funny there's a bit in the film which i thought you would enjoy
they sing a song about how bad big crosby is at dressing and then there's a montage of him coming
out in different outfits yeah as a man who man who loves a finer cloth, Mason,
what did you think?
What I enjoyed about that sequence is that he comes in and out
trying on all these bizarre outfits.
First of all,
what are they all doing in the closet
if they're all so bad?
Secondly, he comes out at the end
just wearing exactly the same things they're wearing.
Just do that first.
Yeah.
Just find the tuxedo.
No, because that's the joke, Mason. You've only just realised there was a joke there. Just do that first. Yeah. Just find the tuxedo. No, because that's the joke, Mason.
You've only just realised there was a joke there.
Oh, that was the joke.
I love it.
So anyway, Robbo's got his new club, his knock-proof club, and he's killing it.
Columbo's club's on the other side of the town, not killing it.
Columbo's like, what I'm going to do, I'm going to round up the police, I'm going to
head down there, and I'm going to bloody smash up their club with axes, which is what we
do.
As is tradition, yes.
So he's heading on down there.
The club, Plank Sinatra's club, gets a call that the cops are coming and the mob is coming.
So there's an amazing...
See, because Columbo didn't count on the one thing that he could never possibly consider, that there's a lookout.
That's right.
There's a guy on the roof who's like, oh, cops are coming.
Cops are coming.
Better prepare for this so basically uh they just fold up the club yeah and it's pretty spectacular and probably really expensive for the time yeah right and
it folds into a little church pretty good looking expensive at the time and a real oh h and s
nightmare because some of those people sometimes they're just folding people into a wall and they're
ducking their heads but like the folding bit of
wall is like smooshing the top
of their head. I'm like, some people
came out of this with bad backs at the very least.
Yeah. And there's people on call who are just
like old drunks.
Yeah. They've just got some old drunks
hidden in the walls for when they need
to pretend this is like a church. And then
the old drunks come out of the walls.
They pile on out.
So basically when everybody busts in,
they're singing a song about how booze is bad or whatever.
It's called Mr. Booze.
It's kind of a great song, but it goes for a hundred years.
It goes for a hundred years.
And it goes even after Columbo and the cops leave.
They're just like, well, may as well not knock the rest of this.
I mean, we could be making some more money on illegal gambling,
but I guess we'll just knock the rest of the song out.
We're mid-song, yeah?
Yeah, we're not going to cancel mid-song.
The thing about the folding up club is that that would only work one time
because surely somebody who was there that night,
who's normally at Columbo's club, would be like,
yeah, we all just got folded into the walls when the police came
and then they left and then we were out of it.
And then Columbo would go...
We had to wait till the song ended.
It was kind of... I mean, it was not a a bad song but it was kind of muffled because i was
in the wall so just the next time they came yeah they'd just be like we know there's a club in the
wall yeah we spent four hundred thousand dollars on this look there's a really obvious switch with
a red light on i'll just flick it oh it's a club again you're all under arrest and we're gonna
smash this place as is tradition.
You're right.
And again, that's where the movie should end.
Yeah.
That's the ending.
You got one over on Columbo.
There's the end.
But it's not the end.
We'd love it to be.
We could wrap up this video.
We could all go about our day. So anyway, then Columbo decides to use the sheriff's wallet and badge and gun or whatever,
which they've kept.
That's a bad idea.
Because, you know.
Evidence. Evidence.
Evidence.
And they frame Robbo for his murder.
So Robbo, sorry, Plank Sinatra,
goes to court and Columbo testifies against Robbo and all the orphans who were friends with,
who live under Bing Crosby,
who were, well, they were all on his side
because they all had Robin Hood hats and bow and arrows
and were like, Robbo bloody sucks now.
We thought he was cool, but he's not cool.
He's bloody putting bloody mobsters and the cops in the ground or whatever.
And then Bing Crosby sings a song.
He's like, hey, come on.
He's all right.
And they're like, yeah, I guess he's all right.
And then at the trial, they're like, why should we believe this guy?
He's a mass murderer or whatever.
And the judge is like, nah, give him a shot.
I'm sure this convicted murderer
is is believable but he's not he's not you're talking about colombo right colombo so while
this is all happening marion uh tries to convince dean martin to help her take over the
robber's business marion is is is wildly mischaracterized yes in this in this movie
and he agrees so john's in charge and john and what's more marion is in charge of robbo's
operation while he's going through this trial so anyway that you think he's going to go to jail
but for no reason the jury's like look everybody who testified is a liar we just think that's the
case everybody holds up signs that like robbo's the best robbo's innocent and free even the jury
have signs they've made them to come out what the main the head juror gives it this impassioned speech. Yeah.
It's like, a whole bunch of,
I don't believe all these low-life scumbags.
And it's like, sit down, mate.
Just say not guilty.
But he says innocent, very specific.
Just say not guilty and get out of there.
I feel that the judge would call for a mistrial.
Yeah.
Anyway, so you think the movie's going to end there,
but it doesn't.
It doesn't end, it just keeps going.
Plank Sinatra goes out and sings a song about
probably being innocent.
And then he goes home to his club
and he checks the registers,
but John's bloody changed the locks.
He can't believe his good friend,
Dean Martin, John, whoever,
has done this to him.
And he finds out also that at the soup kitchens,
which they also opened,
they're printing money out the back
and he's either for or against that.
I'm not really sure where he stands.
Because what kind of mobster is he?
He's fine with making money off illegal gambling,
but he won't print his own money.
Yeah, I don't know.
So he goes to see Marion and she's like, you work for me.
And he's like, not on your bloody Gam's doll face.
And he slaps her with some paper.
And then John's like, I didn't sign up for this.
I'm out of here also.
And Robbo's fine with that.
But clearly you did. Yeah, you signed up for all of it. I'm out of here also. And Robbo's fine with that.
But clearly you did.
Yeah, you signed up for all of it.
You were very willing to step into this guy's shoes and take over.
But you know, rose before dames, as they say. Yeah.
I just thought you were going to go to jail.
So I figured I'd take over your business before we determined whether that was true or not.
So then she goes to Columbo and she's like, listen, I want you to bloody kill Robbo.
And he's like, yeah, I'll do it.
I'll put him in a cornerstone or whatever.
As is tradition.
That's what I do.
I smash up casinos and I put people in cornerstones
and everybody watches.
I love it.
That's my fetish.
I love it.
So we cut to another building opening.
It's for a pretzel building.
There's a long speech by, I think, a German guy. I think it's supposed to be funny. It probably for a pretzel building. There's a long speech by, I think,
a German guy. I think it's supposed to be funny. It probably is supposed to be funny.
I think it's probably supposed to be funny, yeah.
It's funny to laugh at other nationalities.
It certainly is. So then you think that Robbo's in the cornerstone, but it turns out Columbo's
in there. So I guess Robbo Plank Sinatra is the kind of guy that does murder other people.
Yeah, in the end he does. He could have done that earlier.
Yeah.
He could have done that way earlier.
Could have done that way earlier.
But so Marion is told by him, you need to get out of town, dollface, because I'm the
bloody big shot gangster in this town.
I'll tell you this much.
I'll put you in a cornerstone.
I'll put anyone in a cornerstone.
I'm a murderer.
Or am I?
I'm printing money.
Or am I?
What kind of mobster am I?
You don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, get out of here.
Anyway, so she just goes to the uh
newspapers and like yeah robbo's like printing money in the soup kitchen so everyone's like
he's a bad bloke again or whatever so they have to so the police run in and as is tradition they
smash everything with an axe you know what he should have done got into the axe making business
absolutely clean up would have cleaned up so then robbo's Robbo is run out of business. So at the end, he's so down on his luck somehow
that he's collecting money with his mates in a Santa Claus outfit.
The Rat Pack have become charity, Christmas time charity Santas.
Yeah.
They're standing there and then Eleanor Dale, Bing Crosby,
walks past with Marion and she's taken over the business in the end.
One of them's like, oh, bloody get at him or whatever. But they don't get at him and then they sing a song and it's taken over the business in the end. One of them's like, oh, bloody get at him or whatever,
but they don't get at him and then they sing a song
and it's finished.
So kind of like the way that Oceans of Lever just peters out
and they don't win.
What's the point of anything?
It's just over.
I feel like the last at least third of the movie,
the premise is don't trust a dame.
Yeah.
Because she'll cast you aside for the new guy. A few people have said in the comments of the movie, the premise is don't trust a dame. Yeah. Because she'll cast
you aside for the new guy. A few people have said
in the comments of the last one we had to do on this
that it might have been something to do with
the time of filmmaking and
law where you couldn't have a gangster
win in the end. Yeah, right. You're just going to be like
well, I'm down on my luck or whatever.
Yeah. Even though Frank Sinatra had real
life mobster ties. And he was way
off on his luck, let me tell you.
So there you go.
It's a movie.
It's bad.
Oh, it's bad.
It's really bad and long.
I think it is worse than the other one, but it's worse in different ways.
But the music is better.
Yeah, it is better.
That's true.
There's more charm to this one.
Yeah.
If I turn around in three months and I find out they did like a 1960s version of Aquaman
and we have to come back to these fucking idiots, I'm going to lose my mind.
I didn't know this existed and I'm very upset about it.
It turned out Sammy Davis Jr. was a huge fan of DC Comics, so they did an adaptation of
every single DC property.
Here we go.
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