Woody Allen’s first original feature, the 1969 crime film spoof has a badly paced narrative, but its scattershot humor has endured, while its structure has actually become more common and easier to tolerate as the years have passed. Allen portrays a nebbish bank robber, who tries to raise a family while in and out of prison. Everybody has one gag sequence from the film that they really enjoy (we have always been amused when the hero is sent into ‘the hole’ with an insurance salesman) and, in multiple viewings, it is easy to overlook the failed one-liners and focus on the humor Allen is able to generate from the material and the performances.

Summary by Doug Pratt @ DVDLaser.com