Aha, my vague feeling of deja vu while watching this film was because I'd already seen it. I liked it more the second time around: you just can't wait for those who wrong him to get their comeuppance.
Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941)
Ratings & comments
John Merrick (Charles Coburn), richest man in the world, goes undercover as a shoe salesman at a department store he owns to uncover union ringleaders. It's not bad, but even a few days later all I can remember is the faint praise that the bit with the false moustache was amusing, and that their crowded, cramped visit to Coney Island was a vision of hell and oh god even thinking about it gives me the shivers.
Or: meh, but perhaps interesting as an explicitly political artifact of the labour movement.