"The Line-Up" is a short sound film from 1929 that really shows its age. As you watch it, you soon realize how primitive the sound equipment was as well as how primitive the acting is...and that acting really is awful.
The story begins in the world's smallest night club. It's not billed that way...it's just that the film is so cheaply made that they used a room no bigger than many dining rooms (with nothing to indicate it was a night club)! There, you learn through some stilted and poorly delivered dialog that the place is dying as no customers are coming there. When a gangster tells the night club owner he'll give him $5000 to deliver a letter, the owner jumps at the chance...even though even a total imbecile would realize that for all that money it was something illegal and dangerous! What's next? See it...or better yet, don't!
I have rarely heard actors deliver their lines worse than in "The Line-Up"...and I've seen "Robot Monster" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and both feature better acting! The only reason I give this stinker a 2 is that I am cutting it a tiny bit of slack due to how early it was made and it must have some historical importance.