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Absolutely! There’s really something to be said for the 65 - 75 minute comedy. These movies get right down to business as soon as they begin, and don’t linger onscreen beyond the final punchline. There’s a discipline there that’s missing in a lot of more modern productions.

It's essentially the same emotional payoff as You're Telling Me, but done in five seconds instead of 20 minutes :)

And all of that goes to what makes these films endure and play well even today among any modern audience that can be persuaded to give them a chance - even if the exact scenarios are no longer precisely relatable, the character types played by Fields and the ensemble still ring true today. Man...

I read and enjoyed your review with my morning coffee earlier! I wholly agree. The film is unexpectedly good natured and pure of heart, and that’s one of the things that really stands out about it for me. It’s disarming in its innocence, and that’s one of the things that makes it perhaps the...

Probably not as many as I’d like. I was lucky. When I was in middle school, my mom briefly dated a kind older gentleman who took note that I was into films of all kinds and vintages. As we talked about the Marx Bros (whom I had been introduced to thanks to a WPIX airing of A Night At The...

Certainly not forgetting Mrs. Wiggs. Of the Universal-controlled titles that’s probably the one in most dire need of a new transfer - the master used on the DVD was created from a less than stellar element back in the VHS era and it shows! It’s Fields doing some comedy but in a dramatic setting...

I think the exact same line was used in Its A Gift, which is perfectly fine because the sound of Kathleen Howard bellowing those words was comedic perfection. What I love most about You’re Telling Me is just how much comeuppance Fields is able to dish out (via his friend the “Princess” who...