kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS**** The film "Double Dynamite" was released just before Frank Sinatra's break-out movie "From here to Insanity-Eternity" that eventually saved his fledgling both singing and acting career and made him the entertainment icon that he was to become. In the film Sinatra plays a $42.50 a week bank teller Johnny Dalton who can barley make ends meet who's girlfriend fellow bank teller the well endowed, in the bra department, Mildred "Mibs" Goodhue-played by Jand Russell-who's getting a bit sick and tired of waiting for him to ask her to marry her and plans to get involved with the boss' son stuck up and full of himself Bob Puilser Jr.,Don McGuire.It's when Johnny saves big time bookie "Hot Horse" Harris,Nestor Palva, from being beaten to a pulp by a couple of hoods working for his competition he invites Johhny to his gambling den and placed a couple of bets for him that ended up with Johnny winning some $60,000.00 on the ponies. It just happens that back at the bank where Johnny and "Mibs" work the same amount of cash is missing with Johnny possibly being the #1 suspect in the crime. It's here where Johnny's good friend singing waiter and all around BS artist Emile J. Keck, played by Groucho Marks taking time off from his TV show "You Bet your Life", steps in and things are never the same again.***SPOILERS**** It soon turns out that it was "Mibs" not Johnny who's short $75,000.00 in her bank stock and is arrested for bank fraud. That's until Emile has her adding machine checked out finding out that it over-counted what she handed out to her customers and under counted what she had left. this settled the matter and had Johnny soon tie the knot with "Mibs" and have Emile invited to the wedding as the best man. It was really Groucho Marks who was the star of the movie sealing every scene, even those with Miss Russell and her two bazooka's, that he was in. As for Frank Sinatra he did in fact get a chance to sing a number of songs, one a duet with Jane Russell, in the movie but his voice wasn't the same as it was back in his "Bobbie Sox" glory days in the 1940's. It wasn't until his next movie as Maggio in "From Here to Insanity-Eternity" that restarted his career and got him his one and only Academy Award as well as the fame the was soon to follow.

tavm Just watched this on a Netflix disc. It's the only teaming of Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, and Groucho Marx. It's largely because of the last name that I had in interest in seeing this and I wasn't disappointed as he's as funny as you expect him to be with all those wisecracks that cracks me up the way he does them. Sinatra shows his vocal chops to good effect when he duets with both Marx and Ms. Russell on their numbers. The supporting cast is also good of which one of them, William Edmonds, is one of the players from my favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life-he played Mr. Martini there. Here, he has a much bigger role of a restaurateur who's Groucho's boss as Groucho is a waiter here. The plot-about an embezzlement-gambling mixup-gets partially confusing but the way it's performed here, at least it wasn't boring, that's for sure! So on that note, I say Double Dynamite is worth a look.

MartinHafer I tried watching this film with my wife and oldest daughter, but after a while they get pretty nasty--insisting I turn off "that stupid film". Since I have a much higher tolerance for bad, I decided to finish watching it a few days later. Well, after slogging through the film, I could see why this film sat on the shelf for three years before it was ultimately released--it just wasn't funny and occasionally it grated on you. Truly this was a bad film--even with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx in the film.The movie begins with Sinatra walking down the street and seeing some guys beating up another guy. He intervenes and to show his appreciation, the victim tells him to "come with me". They enter an innocent enough looking place...that ends up being a front for a gambling operation. His appreciation then entailed putting $1000 on a "sure thing" horse--which won. So far, so good. But, when the gambler puts the winnings on the next two races (two more "sure things") and the money is now $60,000, Sinatra is pretty happy--even though up until then he insisted he hated gambling and just wanted to be let go back to work (it was his lunch hour). When he does go back to work eventually, he hears that the bank is missing $75,000 and he's afraid to tell anyone that he's won--lest they think his new-found wealth was stolen by him since he is a teller.After this interesting but impossible to believe beginning, the film starts to bog down. Most of this is because Sinatra and Jane Russell aren't really well cast--they aren't especially good at comedy. And, by pairing them with Groucho (who is really wild and funny), the whole mixture just doesn't work. It seems fake and very, very forced. And for the next hour, lots of kookiness occurs until finally, thankfully, the whole thing is over and everyone lives happily ever after.Overall, a huge misfire. I was almost tempted to give the film a 2, but at least Groucho is watchable in a rather obnoxious role. Dull and stupid--not a great formula for success.

dgz78 then you should check this movie out. First, it might be the best movie Groucho did without his brothers. I know that's not saying much, but he really does a good job without Chico or Harpo. I thought he would be able to get off more double entendres with Jane Russell. I mean the movie is named Double Dynamite because of her.Sinatra seems out of place playing a meek bank cashier that can't make a commitment to Russell. He's not a guy that would ever be invited to join the Rat Pack. Heck, Jerry Lewis could take on this Sinatra. And Russell probably would want to marry Lewis instead of Frank. How could he have taken this role? Russell does a pretty good job of playing off Sinatra and Groucho. She had a nice comic side that she didn't get to show often enough.This was the last movie directed by Irving Cummings. Cummings, who started out as an actor in the silent era, doe a good job of keeping the story moving along. He's no Hitchcock or Ford, but he does a pretty good job with a pretty thin story.I give it 7 out of 10 stars - a passing grade but not enough to make the honor roll.