Butch Minds the Baby

Series: LCA Short Story Library

Duration: 30 min.

Year Published: 1982

Creator: LCA

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker at first declines to "go on a job" because he is baby-sitting his infant son, but then decides to bring him along. After the successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a safecracker with a baby in his arms., An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker declines to go on a job because he is babysitting his infant son. He reconsiders and brings the baby along. After a successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a robber with babe in arms. Set in Manhattan in the summer of 1931, this humorous story is told in Runyon's inimitable laconic style.

Complete Record: , An ex-convict who is an expert safecracker declines to go on a job because he is babysitting his infant son. He reconsiders and brings the baby along. After a successful robbery, police officers questioning the man dismiss the possibility of a robber with babe in arms. Set in Manhattan in the summer of 1931, this humorous story is told in Runyon's inimitable laconic style. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.