YMMV / Robin and the 7 Hoods

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Deputy Potts is just a secondary villain without much personality or redeeming traits, but Victor Buono plays him as having enough cunning and subtly humorous traits to make him popular despite his lack of singing in a musical film.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Robbo confronts Guisborne over the murder of Big Jim Stephens, he says "You better stay out of the North Side. You'll come in like George Washington, and you'll leave like Abraham Lincoln." A few days later, they filmed Jim's funeral scene... on November 22, 1963. After the assassination had already hit the news. Sinatra, who was a close personal friend of JFK lost enthusiasm for the film, but soldiered on anyway. For the rest of his life, he regretted not having that line deleted from the finished movie.
• Magnificent Bitch: Marian is the daughter of murdered mob boss Big Jim, who had her raised in a safe boarding school environment. Marian's first act after mourning her father is to offer his friend and subordinate Robbo $50,000 to kill Jim's murderer. After someone else kills the murderer, she assumes Robbo did it and pays him the $50,000, even after he denies responsibility and rejects her plan to take over the city's organized crime. When Robin is arrested, she takes over his charitable organization and makes it a counterfeiting front until Robbo puts a stop to this, then rapidly makes a series of alliances to take out Robbo and set herself up with a powerful and discreet crook. Whenever one of her partners dies or abandons her, she wastes no time in setting up another alliance before Robbo expects it, and eventually she brings down her old counterfeiting operation and frames Robbo for this crimes, ending the movie rich, respected, powerful, and with all of her enemies defeated.
• One-Scene Wonder: Big Jim (Edward G. Robinson) dies in the first scene but is a fantastically memorable Affably Evil, Oblivious to Hatred, Large Ham crime boss.
• Signature Song: The "Mr. Booze" song, which is meant to fool the police during the fake revival meeting at the casino, is probably the best-liked song, especially since it showed up in an episode of Family Guy.

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