The idea of children in adults' roles is apparently recurrent in movies. It had already been the basis for The Little Train Robbery (1905), and would later reappear in Bugsy Malone (1976), which has very similar situations as in this Little Geezer, except that in that film the machine guns spilled whipped cream and here apparently they contain real bullets; in The Little Train Robbery the merchandise they steal is candy, so there is a link with children's interests; in Little Geezer there is none. There must be a reason that lead people to come back to this joke but I can't be sure what it is, and I have never figured out what is so funny about it. But this film is moderately enjoyable, mostly because of the daring (for the time) editing (only sometimes it is so fast that it is hard to make out the individual scenes).
(I saw this film on December 18, 2006, as part of the DVD Unseen Cinema: Inverted Narratives.)
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