I'm always up for fun 1930s B movies, and have blogged about quite a few of them before. A lot of them aren't available on DVD, which means you have to wait for them to show up on TCM. Tomorrow is a day chock full of such films, several of which I haven't blogged about -- or even seen -- before, and most of which are not out on DVD. There are two films which I did post on before that aren't on DVD.
First of these is Professional Sweetheart at 11:45 AM, in which Ginger Rogers plays a radio star who has to marry hillbilly Norman Foster in order to maintain her image of purity. It's enjoyable enough, although comedies where having to maintain a fiction is one of the main plot points is something that can get a bit tedious after a while.
The other of the two movies is also a comedy with the characters having to keep a lie going: We're Rich Again, at 3:30 PM. In this one, Grant Mitchell plays the father in a family that's going broke, but he has to keep up the fiction that they're not in order that he can marry his daughter off; meanwhile, his daughter's cousin shows up to make things more complicated. One thing I was slightly off about in the original post is the suggestion that Buster Crabbe doesn't have a line of dialog. He finally does have the chance to speak, but only in the last ten minutes or so of the film.
I've also blogged about Rafter Romance (1:00 PM before), but that one is on DVD as part of a box set of six films that Merian C. Cooper got the rights to as part of his severance package with RKO.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Not on DVD repeats for November 14
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