Butch Minds the Baby

  • Comedy
1/1/1979
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A BAFTA award winning comedy based on short story by Damon Runyon. Set in New York in the 1920s, the story tells of the bungling attempts of three gangsters to break into a safe, aided by Butch the safe cracker, who has brought his baby along because he can't get a sitter.

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      • Geronimo1967

        If youre familiar with the Pete Smith specialities from the late 1940s then youll appreciate that most of the value here comes from the narration. From the perspective of its author Damon Runyon, that guides us through half an hour of daft antics as Harry the Horse tries to get his pal, former safecracker Butch to come out of retirement and help him steal a small fortune from an office. Butch has become fed up with his stays at Leavenworth and is also now the proud possessor of an infant son John Ignatius Jnr and so isnt so keen, but eventually agrees to team up with his pal and a few others to do the job. Now silence is quite important if they are to succeed and this hungry, curious and noisy infant isnt up for playing ball so they have to...

        June 27, 2025