Comedy Kings 50 Movie Pack Disc 4

     

The Admiral Was A Lady is a 1950 movie with Edmond O'Brien as the leader of a bunch of vetrans who were all involved in a plane crash. They don't have regualar jobs but they manage to get by with their little schemes. They all live rent free in an unused warehouse where Edmond is the night watchman. They drive a truck that advertises a music store which pays for their gas. They get unemployment since they are part of the 52-20 club, returning soldiers got 20 bucks a week for a year, and to make an extra quarter they open saving accounts at a bank which gives out free piggy banks. They sell the piggy banks to a shop and close their accounts. Every week. It's all fun for the guys until a young WAVE crosses their paths. Turns out they all have some emotional baggage and that leads to some fun comedic bits as things work themselves out. Wanda Hendrix plays the WAVE - the Admiral of the title - and she's pretty cute. The rest of the cast does a good job with an entertaining script. Worth a look. Available on dvd in various forms or I've hidden a link somewhere in the post. Keep an eye out for it.

   

 

His Double Life is a 1933 Roland Young & Lillian Gish film. He's a reclusive artist who takes advantage of the death of his valet to pretend to be dead and she's the valet's mail order bride. They hook up and then Roland gets charged with bigamy. It's a dopey idea but I always enjoy Roland Young and I don't have too many Lillian Gish movies. It's a fairly entertaining movie but there's too much melodrama,  too little comedy, and the previous movie was more fun. You can watch it too for free by clicking a link. I'm not going to tell you which one. 

Boys Of The City is a 1940 East Side Kids movie. It's the second of a series of 22 films that were made by Sam Katzman at Monogram. They started in 1940 and ended the series in 1945. Before that series most of the same actors were in The Dead End Kids over at Warner Brothers. They did 6 films over there before getting tossed out of the studio for trashing stuff. At the same time some of them were making a dozen Little Tough Guys pictures and all that was followed by 4 dozen Bowery Boys films. I find them to be similar enough, mostly entertaining in a dumb way, and this is not to different. The guys have to take a trip to camp for playing in the street too hard. They's a big old house, crooks, ghosts and yelling, lots of yelling. You can see it on the IA.

Escape To Paradise is a 1939 film about a guy travelling to South America. He meets a young motorcycle taxi driver and then a young woman. Romance and some comedy ensue. There's some singing by the young motorcycle taxi driver. I didn't know who the kid singer was, he headlines the film, but I read that Bobby Breen was a Canadian singer, yay, he made several movies, and the Beetles liked him enough to put him on the album cover of Sgt Peppers. That's kind of cool. The movie was ok, about average, nothing too special. Again you can stop off here to see it.