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Dance Hall Racket

1954, Movie, NR, 57 mins

Dance Hall Racket: Review

No-budget effort from the man who made ROBOT MONSTER (1953), notable for containing the only fiction-film appearance of legendary standup comic Lenny Bruce. Bruce also scripted the film, which is an atrociously paced, episodic affair that works best when it allows movie fan Lenny to ham it up as a tough, knife-wielding gangster. Gangster Umberto Scalli (Timothy Farrell) runs his criminal operations from the Scalli Dance Emporium, located near a California port. Merchant sea... read more leave a comment