A Fine Mess

In this film viewers have almost nobody to care about, and all of the klutzy comedy is given, not to the two heros, but to their gangland pursuers. Danson is a Hollywood hanger-on, a movie extra scraping to make ends meet. Working on location at a racetrack, he overhears the crooks, Mulligan and Margolin, plotting to dope a horse. Danson informs Mandel, a roller-skating carhop, who has put a few bucks away for a rainy day. Danson persuades Mandel to bet it all on the horse, a sure thing. When the crooks' boss, Sorvino, learns that someone else knows of the bet, he sics his hoods of Mandel and Danson just as they are collecting their ten-grand winnings at the track...