The Gang's All Here (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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Frankie O'Malley
Patsy Wallace
Jackie Moran
Chick Daly
Mantan Moreland
Jefferson 'Jeff' Smith
Robert Homans
Pop Wallace
Irving Mitchell
R. A. Saunders
Ed Cassidy
Jack Norton
Pat Gleason
Henchman Marty
Jack Kenney
Henchman Dink
Laurence Criner
Ham Shanks
Edmond Kelso (original screenplay)
3 July 2018 | MartinHafer
| Pretty typical of the Darro-Moreland films.
In the late 1930s into the 40s, Monogram Studios made a string of films starring Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland. What makes them unique is that Moreland was Darro's friend and partner in the film....and Moreland was black. While in their relationship Darro seems to be the boss, the fact that they'd be friends and treat each other as near equals is very unusual and quite progressive for the day.
The films they made together share two things in common. First, Darro, despite being a tiny guy, is very pugnacious. And, second, Moreland is more of a coward....going along with Darro but protesting all the way when times get tough!
In "The Gang's All Here", the pair look for work as truck drivers...unaware that one trucking company will stop at nothing to destroy the other. This means that the gang has no problem running them off the road or even killing them. So, it's up to the pair...plus an undercover man (Keye Luke) to get to the bottom of everything.
The casting here is interesting, as Moreland AND Luke both were veterans of the Charlie Chan series and appeared in several of these films together. Moreland plays a similar character to Birmingham Brown in the Chan films, though he's not quite as cowardly.
So is it any good? For a B-movie, it's decent....nothing great but not bad. The story is pretty good, however the Patsy character is pretty annoying and Darro's pugnaciousness is a bit silly at times. Overall it's worth watching....a decent time-passer and pretty comparable to the other Darro-Moreland pictures.
Boys of the City
The Gang's All Here
Hollywood and Vine
Flying Wild
Three Husbands
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Let's Go Collegiate
You're Out of Luck
Tough Kid
The Death Kiss
Chasing Trouble
This film was first telecast in New York City Sunday 26 September 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2) and in Los Angeles Tuesday 24 May 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5).
Jefferson 'Jeff' Smith: Well, suppose we don't wanna sit down?
Ham Shanks: Then you'd better do some fresh supposin'.
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