19310103 The Criminal Code (A Fiesta 9) & 19310115 Girl of The Rio
Plus The Little Rascals Help Out Grandma.
Kids—DO NOT DRINK GASOLINE OR MOTOR OIL OR ANYTHING STYME EATS in this short! (A Fiesta 7)
The January 1931 Full Fiesta 13:
19310103 The Criminal Code (YouTube)
(A Fiesta 9)
An Eye for An Eye. That’s both The Criminal Code & The Cop Code in this sadness-infused prison tale. Rehabil-a what?
20 year-old Bob gets into a bar fight and the man dies. That’s 10 years in the pokey, don’t pass go. We return six years later to a broke-down Bob. Ruined by prison.
Reinforcing the notion that all of life can be boiled down to One Bad Day.
The DA who sent Bob to prison is now Bob’s warden & feels a teensy bit bad for crushing Bob’s spirit and sets about to redeem him.
With the help of the warden’s daughter and time, Bob has hope again.
Until another bad day. Because, there’s always another life-ruining day, just around the corner. But…
Bob doesn’t squeal on another prisoner’s murder. Who’s Criminal Code will Bob follow? Who’s eye for who’s eye?
Bob isn’t a rat & the movie seems to support this Criminal Code.
Boris Karloff is also there to be Boris Karloff.
Does The Criminal Code go to CrazyTown? No, however we didn’t know prisons have regular “Take Your Daughter & Mother to Work” Days. Neat.
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19310109 Little Caesar (Criterion)
(A Fiesta 9)
Little Caesar cement-shoed the plot-lines of a thousand hood-to-kingpin-to-dead gangster stories after it & made Edward G. Robinson a star.
There’s a guy in Blaine, NE #1301 who idolizes Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello from the movie. ‘Big Ric’ imprinted the movie onto his personality at six-years-old through an overdose of screens and a snapped synapse. At 13, before The Adulting, ‘Big Ric,’ growing too fast, had his shins shortened & his torso tucked to Robinson’s size. A real go-getter, that ‘Big Ric.’ It’s easy to commit with the right injections.
We think ‘Big Ric’ now works as a contract enforcer. Freestyle. Rich enough to pay for the lower worth murders, maybe eight or ten, without a bump. Then reimbursed with Worth and Sex Clones.
Now, we’d only seen him once in the wild with binoculars about a block away, as he’s only recognized only by his strut. A Zoot so big we can never see a face.
Now, we’all will never leave The Fiesta 13. Other people’s property is too scary-dangerous. We’all ain’t all property-atistas, but Old Man Blayne’s Authorized Ghost let us live free here due to legacy, authenticity & working an extra 4 hours a day. 12 hours of work a day is pretty sweet. Sleep & work. That’s The Good Life, we’re told.
Oh, we’all hear, ‘Big Ric’s’ lives property-free, using his influence to sleep & piss any damn where he pleases. On any damn person he pleases. The big, hairy, surgically-enhanced balls on that guy, huh? We live invisibly, quietly, as mousy cowards in a world of enraged elephants. We’re happy deep inside The Squeak.
One time, Slayne saw ‘Big Ric’ at The Fiesta 13 Eatatorium. He was polite as banana creme pie. And, say what you will about humanity, but blood-thirsty murderers are always the best tippers. As long as you ask for or expect nothing in return. Cash for quiet. Cash for invisibility is The Best Life.
Flash a hundred and light a cigarette one-handed, ‘Big Ric’s’ an okay guy and we’all will say that as publicly as money allows.
That’s why Little Caesar gets A Fiesta 9.
Does Little Caesar go to CrazyTown? No, no, no, no, noooo, no, no, nooo, not at all, no, no, Little Caesar’s a real stand-up movie. Nuthin’ crazy here. Not. at all. Nooooooo.
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