Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

mark.waltz Not bad for what it is, this B crime thriller with lots of moments of comedy is fast and furious and includes the right amount of ingredients to make it satisfactory B movie fare. It all concerns a cut up diamond stolen and prepared to be sold and the chase to find the culprits. Diminutive Darro (at 5'3" one of the smallest leading men outside of Alan Ladd and Mickey Rooney) poses as a prize fighter in order to infiltrate the den of thieves and works along side special agent Kane Richmond. He also has to deal with the constant cloying attentions of perky teen June Gale whose schtick gets a little tired after a while. There's plenty of action though and a nice car chase finale, but most of the film I had pretty much forgotten about outside Darro's temperament, Gale's clinging onto him and a few of the more powerful action scenes. As directed by Leslie Goodwin (equal to William Beaudine and Samuel Katzman as a fast moving quota quickie director), this isn't something I'd push onto film classic aficionados other than to take a look at the career of the extremely likable Darro, a Bowery Boy type without all the bad malapropisms and certainly an actor of some note who has a cult following but isn't as well remembered as he should be.

MartinHafer This film often made very little sense and it made me wonder if perhaps the studio let children or lemurs. The film begins with some businessmen discussing a so-called 'Devil Diamond'--a supposedly cursed large diamond. In order to be able to sell it, they decide to secretly cut it into smaller diamonds. So far, so good. However, they are going to mail it (uninsured even) to a retired diamond cutter and have him do the work. Considering the stone was nearly the size of a doorknob, it was simply insane to imagine anyone handling it in such a cavalier manner.The scene switches to a group of crooks. They have found out about the plan and are going to the town where the diamond is being sent, as they want to steal the stone. However, and here's where it gets goofy, they create a cover story about why they are in this small town--they are there to train a young and relatively dim boxer (Frankie Darro). The only trouble is, Darro looks about as menacing as a jelly donut and the 'trainers' seem to care less about his workout regimen. To make it worse, a couple of the dumb crooks keep picking fights with Darro--making anyone with half a brain to assume they have no interest in training the guy. And, in the process, they are about as incognito as a group of strippers at a Baptist convention! Staying in the diamond cutters home are not just these guys, but a secret agent for the diamond industry (handsome Kane Richmond). Can Richmond thwart these no-goodnicks? And, for that matter, can stupid Frankie Darro figure out that he is NOT in training?! In recent months, I've seen quite a few of Darro's films--mostly ones he co-starred with Mantan Moreland. The sum total of these films sure make me wonder why Darro was a star--even for a tiny independent studio. He just came off as a bit annoying and completely lacked charisma. If I had been in charge of the production, I would have just focused on Richmond--he at least looked and sounded like a leading man. And, while I was at it, I would have tried to find a competent writer or two! Oh, and I would have found some way to make at least a single moment in this film interesting!

dbborroughs Kane Richmond and Frankie Darro star in this crime story about the plot to steal a famous cursed diamond before its cut.The plot has gangsters using the notion of training Frankie for a fight as a cover to wait for the diamonds in the boarding house run by the man who's going to cut the diamond. Kane shows up, nominally to research the life of a local figure, however he's really a special agent sent by the jewelers association to keep the diamond safe. Most of the movie is Frankie battling his handlers who are waiting for word the diamond is coming their way and the romantic entanglements of Kane and Frankie.This is enjoyable romp, seemingly aimed more at the family or juvenile audience than a regular picture, this is a good way to spend an afternoon at the movies. Another film that won't win any awards this movie gets points for its humor and its mostly less than serious attitude. (If I must say something bad its that the acting of the woman Kane Richmond falls for is fair at best)

Spuzzlightyear Devil's Diamond is one heck of a curio of a movie, that leaves everything dangling and nothing resolved. After a "cursed" diamond is shipped off by a jewelry company to get cut by a master cutter, a cunning employee of the company gathers a bunch of bad guys together to snap up the diamonds once they're cut. Bur wait a sec, how are they going to act natural at the hostel where the cutter is? Thanks to a sharp-fisted delivery boy, they create a front that they're training the kid to box, and that will keep everyone fooled! When they get there, there's another suspicious chap who is also looking at the diamond. Is it another bad guy? We're led to BELIEVE that, but of course it isn't, because after all, we need a hero for the story! So yes, it DOES turn out (DUH!) he's only keeping an eye out on the diamond, and starts getting suspicious about the gang hanging out. The boxer-in-training gets suspicious too, not when he's tiredly fighting off some girly amour that keeps pawing him. The end I won't spoil for you, but this left me with my shoulders shrugging, as it really didn't achieve anything. Didn't leave me rooting for the main characters, nuttin.