When aired on Turner Classic Movies network (TCM), it airs under its original title, Larceny, Inc (1942) [Other titles used in the US are "The Night Before Christmas" and "A Night Before Christmas"].
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 10 April 1941 and closed 27 April 1941 after 22 performances. The opening cast included Shelley Winters.
Woody Allen uses the same basic plot for Small Time Crooks (2000). No credit was given to this film.
After Jug gives up a home run in the prison baseball game, he says, "My finger slipped" and raises his middle finger to Pressure.
No children are seen in the film. Although Philo Reh ("Urchin"), Fred Walburn ("Urchin") and Janice Ohman ("Little Girl") are in studio records/casting call lists for their roles, they either were cut from the final print or never were filmed at all.
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