The 1934 comedy film It’s a Gift is not so much a movie as an excuse for a series of hilarious vaudeville knockabout gags, with W C Fields on his finest form as henpecked New […]
Director Edward F Cline’s 1941 comedy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break finds the great W C Fields on superb form as ‘The Great Man’ in this story (written by him as Otis Criblecoblis) […]
Director/ story writer David Butler’s tuneful 1940 musical If I Had My Way tells a weary, laborious yarn, with handling to match, although all the stars Bing Crosby, Charles Winninger, Gloria Jean and El Brendel […]
Director Mark Sandrich’s rather feebly written 1944 wartime patriotic musical Here Come the Waves is rescued by exuberant stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and by one great new song – Harold Arlen (music) and […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s pleasant, carefree 1937 musical comedy romance Waikiki Wedding stars a fresh-faced Bing Crosby, who croons the grass skirts off Hawaiian maidens, in this entirely jovial and genial Paramount Pictures musical, best remembered, […]
Director David Butler’s nice but only middling 1939 Universal Pictures black and white musical comedy with songs East Side of Heaven stars Bing Crosby as a crooning cabbie called Denny Martin, who is surrogate dad to […]
The 1932 comedy film If I Had a Million has a simple, well executed idea: a dying eccentric millionaire decides to give a million dollars to eight people picked at random from the phone book to […]
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