No Place Like Movies at Home: Double Dynamite

We have spent of quality time with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra the last couple of sessions. We might be saying good bye to Mr. Kelly for a while but Frank is gonna be around for a very long time! The next collection that I have of Mr. Sinatra is his Younger years collection. This is a collection of five movies that are some of his earliest, and lets face it, some of his least remembered films. Granted, not every one of them is not remembered but there are a few. The first one that we are going to look like is one that very few would have heard about from 1951 Double Dynamite.

Double Dynamite stars the ever wonderful Frank Sinatra as a bank clerk who is hoping to get a raise so that he can marry his girl, Jane Russell. As luck would have it he doesn't get the money and his dream is put to an end. However, "luck" is not done with him. After postponing his whole life due to lack of funds, Sinatra helps a man from getting the beating of his life. Turns out the man he saved is a bookie. He loans Sinatra $1000 and bets it on a fixed race. Long story short Sinatra walks away with $60,000! He is so excited that goes to his friend, Groucho Marx, to help him gets presents for his future fiance. However, during his spending spree the bank finds that there is $75,000 missing. They say that they are going to start looking into the employees lives to see who might have stolen it! So, the question is is Frank Sinatra spending stolen goods or did his win that money "legitimately"?

Not gonna lie, not one of my favorite Frank Sinatra films. I mean it was cute, and sweet, and funny but it's not memorable like some of his other roles. There are some of the films that are so fun to watch that you can't look away, and this one I found myself easily distracted. Even trying write about it right now it's hard to stay focused. I am more looking forward to some of the other movies of his that I will be seeing this week. However, it was really fun to see Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra in the same film. Every scene that he was in was fun to watch. Other than that not much to write home about.