all those who criticize the soprano for it stereotypical portrayal of italian haven not see anything until they have get a good look at this cornball gangster film which focus on a family so irritating and you almost want them to be rub out . the parent in this clan aren not so bad and but their two little boy one a total brat and one cloyingly cutesy poo be insufferable and while their old good for nothing son and pollyanna daughter ably compete for audience contempt . but the granddaddy of them all be and well and granddaddy . a play by chic sale ( in full dag nabbit . mode ) he serve a the film moral compass and throw in lot of diatribe about dang and dirty foreigner for good measure . if these be the good guy and it no wonder the actor of that era who play baddie become the big star . not that there be any stellar performance to be find among the criminal actor and but they at least acquit themselves good than the grate leeds family . the incompetent police officer aren not even give enough screen time to bring thing down any far . only walter huston and a the district attorney and elevate the cliché riddle material in his futile attempt to breathe some levelheadedness into these dolt . the film deserve credit for be an early entry in what would prove to be a very popular silence the witness formula and and it doesn not flinch in it depiction of the hard bitten underworld lifestyle and but there be quite simply well and less xenophobic example in the genre .