i stumble on this little gem a few month ago on ifc and and just watch it again today . if there be an academy award category for best modernistic recreation of classic hollywood style this film would have win hand down . gibson frazier be amazing and channel the spirit of buster keaton and harold lloyd with a script that read like a robert heinlein short story . ( or perhaps harlan ellison . ) hang your belief at the door and flow with the fantasy . you be not go to learn any deep truth here . except perhaps how to make a really snappy film on small change . the plot ( what there be of it and and be fair and not many reporter or gangster film from the 20 and 30 do either ) move frazier from the clean black and white world of new york to it darker underbelly without once get dirty or lose the starch on his herbert hoover collar . worth you 80 minute . more so if you love old b movie .