I liked this movie.

To truly enjoy this film a person has to be familiar with the attitudes of the time towards drinking. There was no TV to glamorize drinking in their commercials which over time changed the entire country's attitude to drinking at large.

Back when this film was made there were many older people who felt that prohibition was not a bad thing and would have worked had the criminals not been in bed with the politicians.

Growing up in that period of time I did not consider it unusual to see those little signs that said "Lips that touch alcohol shall never touch mine!" You could find entire communities that felt drinking was a social ill. The best way I can compare this to today is the anti-smoking movement.

So if you are an older person who remembers those times well you'll get a good laugh out of this film. If you are a younger person who did not live that experience you will probably not like this movie and wonder what the fuss over drinking was such a big deal.

A favorite trick of drinkers back then was to sneak a bit of alcohol into something a anti-drinker was going to consume. My wife's Aunt was one of those people who had those little anti-alcohol signs in her home. Every Christmas my mother-in-law would send her a fruitcake that had been marinated for a couple of months in a top quality brand of whiskey. The Aunt always raved about it being the best fruitcake she had ever eaten and how she even felt better after consuming it. She was never told the ingredients of the fruitcake.