Caught in the Act

Crooks are putting the squeeze on Charles Miller, but he has a business to run. He gives longtime employee Henry Armetta a promotion and the day off so he can give his daughter away in marriage. But on the way home, Maxine Leslie jumps in his car, sticks her foot on the gas and gets where she's going in a hurry. Then she kisses Armetta on the cheek and jumps out. Cops spot her. Knowing she's in league with the crooks working on Miller, they arrest Armetta, and sweat him a bit. He admits readily he works for Miller, and now both men are in jail.

It's a comedy, of course, and Armetta plays his dumb but earnest Sicilian character to the hilt. Unfortunately, Miller goes to jail happily enough, says nothing, won't see his lawyer, and it's never clear what he's up to. A farce may attempt to be funny, but not with people behaving oddly with no reason.