From Small Time Crooks one-sheet, you might think the film is a kids' movie. It features a shadowy figure munching on a chocolate-chip cookie, while the title seems to be a play on words, with the implication that the crooks in question may be diminutive in height. Relax, pedophobiacs there isn t a child anywhere in Crooks .
Crooks starts off like a modern-day version of The Honeymooners .
One day, the former stick-up man hatches a plan to rob a Manhattan bank by renting an abandoned pizza parlor on the same block and tunneling into the bank s vault. When she hesitates, Ray practically sends her to the moon, Ralph Kramden-style. The three would-be criminals need Frenchie for both her monetary contribution to their scheme, as well as to run the cookie store that will serve as a front while the men burrow toward the bank vault. One year later, everyone involved in Sunset is filthy rich and are even interviewed by 60 Minutes Steve Kroft in a particularly funny segment. All of this takes place in the Crooks first half-hour.