Bob Hope Tribute Collection - Caught in the Draft / Give Me a Sailor Double Feature
by Elliott Nugent
from Universal Studios
Bob Hope Tribute Collection - Louisiana Purchase / Never Say Die Double Feature
by Irving Cummings
from Universal Studios
Here Comes Cookie / Love in Bloom / Six of a Kind
from Paramount Pictures
Three features (just over an hour each), showcase the well-honed comic patter of George Burns and Gracie Allen during the busiest time in their movie career, the mid-1930s. Gracie's dingbat malapropisms were so perfectly straightforward ("I really shouldn't drink coffee in the morning; it keeps me awake all day"), and Burns's straight-man timing so unerring, the pair was often funnier than their material. They road-trip west in Leo McCarey's amusing Six of a Kind, which is actually at its best when W.C. Fields is polishing one of his pool-playing routines. Love in Bloom casts George and Gracie as carnival folk, in support of a sappy plot of young lovers in New York. They top-line in Here Comes Cookie, which has some nice screwball-among-the-rich energy. The Burns and Allen chemistry was really at its best in their short films, radio, and TV, but these Paramount features are pleasing entertainment nonetheless. --Robert Horton
Mickey Rooney: Forever Young 4 Movie Pack
by Irving Pichel
from Brentwood Home Video
THE BIG WHEELMickey Rooney plays Billy Coy a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion racecar driver. On the way to the top he steps on his friends and foes alike. He even manages to briefly alienate his saintly mother (Spring Byington). The cocky Coy eventually kills another racer when he forgets that gas and alcohol don t mix. It takes some doing but Billy finally redeems himself1949 B&W 92 minutesMY OUTLAW BROTHERDenny O More (Mickey Rooney) is a greenhorn from New York who heads into the Wild West to see his brother Patrick (Robert Stack). Along the way he begins traveling with a ranger who is hot on the trail of a notorious outlaw who turns out to be Denny s brother. The tale is based on a novel by Max Brand.1951 B&W 82 minutesQUICKSANDMotor mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera the type whose life s ambition is a fur coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer. To make up the shortage he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime while everyone he meets is out for what they can get.1950 B&W 79 minutesLOVE LAUGHS AT ANDY HARDYIn true art imitates life fashion Rooney plays returning G.I. Andy hardy who arrives in his home town of Carvel to the open arms of his family: Father Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) mother Mrs. Hardy (Fay Holden) and Aunt Milly (Sara Haden). Andy launches into a new romance with college coed Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville). His boundless ebullience is dampened when Kay elects to marry another setting the stage for another of those man-to-man talks between Judge Hardy and Son. Fortunately Andy bounces back to his old self when he meets Latin American exchange student Isobel Gonzales (Lina Romay).1946 B&W 93 minutesSystem Requirements:Copyright 2004 BCI.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 787364574896
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