{"id":31132,"date":"2022-12-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31132"},"modified":"2022-12-13T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:10:25","slug":"the-great-diamond-robbery-1954-starring-red-skelton-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31132","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Great Diamond Robbery&#8221; (1954) starring Red Skelton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z121322zview_greatdiamondrobbery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Great Diamond Robbery <\/strong><\/em>(1954)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Z. Leonard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Vadnay, Martin Rackin, George Oppenheimer<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Red Skelton, Cara Williams, James Whitmore, Kurt Kasznar, George Mathews, Harry Bellaver, Steven Geray<\/strong> and <strong>Larry J. Blake\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A NEW Uproarious Role in the Career of the World&#8217;s Funniest Man<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambrose C. Park (Skelton) as found on a park bench when he was a tiny baby.\u00a0 No one ever came to claim him. Now Ambrose is a diamond cutter who dreams of having a family.\u00a0 He&#8217;s searched for his family for years with no luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shyster lawyer named Mr. Remlick (Whitmore) plans to swindle Ambrose out of a few thousand dollars. Remlock pulls together scam artists to play Ambrose&#8217;s mother, father and sister.\u00a0 Their plan goes sideways when hard core thugs learn of a diamond worth two million dollars sitting in a safe where Ambrose works.\u00a0 The thugs take over the scam and plan to kill anyone that gets in their way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Great Diamond Robbery\u00a0<\/em>is the type of light-hearted, sweet film that isn&#8217;t made any more. Red Skeleton is perfect as the naive diamond-cutter who wants a family.\u00a0 Cara Williams plays his love interest and this is the first film I&#8217;ve seen with her.\u00a0 I want to see more.\u00a0 The actors playing the scammers and gangsters are well cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Great Diamond Robbery\u00a0<\/em>was Red Skeleton&#8217;s last film while under contract to MGM.\u00a0 It contains one of Red&#8217;s more subdued performances and I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Great Diamond Robbery <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z121322zview_greatdiamondrobbery2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Diamond Robbery (1954) Director:\u00a0 Robert Z. 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