"Sure," the lawyer had told him, "he's a little punchy. Some of his marbles are gone, but he has his points. He's big and he's tough, and the few things he knows he knows well. There isn't a better hot-car artist around. The only thing is, he's just too stupid to know what to do with a car when he gets one. He takes 'em for pleasure, for God's sake."

Cribbins recalls how the lawyer first described the dim-witted, punch-drunk car thief Mitty.

— Goldman in Hostage for a Hood (Lionel White, 1957)


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