Butch Minds the Baby (1979)
01/01/1979 (GB) • 31m
Overview
A BAFTA award winning comedy based on short story by Damon Runyon. Set in New York in the 1920s, the story tells of the bungling attempts of three gangsters to break into a safe, aided by Butch the safe cracker, who has brought his baby along because he can't get a sitter.
Top Billed Cast
John Ignatius Jnr.
Big Butch
Damon Runyon
Harry the Horse
Little Isadore
Spanish John
Police sergeant
Damon Runyon (voice)
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