Six of a Kind (1934)

When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.

Director:

Leo McCarey

Writers:

Keene Thompson (story), Douglas MacLean (story),

Stars:

Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Charles Ruggles	...	J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
Mary Boland	...	Flora Whinney
W.C. Fields	...	Sheriff John Hoxley
George Burns	...	George Edward
Gracie Allen	...	Gracie Devore
Alison Skipworth	...	Mrs. K. Rumford
Bradley Page	...	Ferguson
Grace Bradley	...	Goldie
William J. Kelly	...	Gillette
Phil Tead	...	Clerk in Newspaper Office

Storyline

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.

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Plot Keywords:

bank | nevada | sheriff | cross country | mastiff | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 February 1934 (USA)

Also Known As:

I sei mattacchioni

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

62 min 62 min (TCM print)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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Goofs

George Burns' character Name is shown onscreen as "George Edward", but "Edwards" is consistently spoken as his surname.

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Quotes

Gracie De Vore: Breakfast will be ready in six minutes.
George Edwards: Six minutes?
Gracie De Vore: Yeah, I just put on two three minute eggs.
George Edwards: [Deadpanned] Three minutes apiece'

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Connections

References The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

User Reviews

Pool

The idea in this is to take three comedy teams and combine them in one movie. The gimmick is that these represent three radically different types of humor. What happens usually is people find some things funny and ignore the others. Scan through these IMDb comments and you will see grace fall on different players in this.

The Fields poolplaying routine is priceless. I've seen it before but cannot recall where. But its inserted into this project without reference to anything else. Incidentally, it works as well as it does because there is a watcher in the frame, a deadpan face that is every bit as valuable and practiced as the actor.

That's indicative of how the experiment fails as a whole. If you know "Mad Mad Mad World," you'll know a successful example where comedic methods actually do bump up against each other and generate something resonant, rich, higher.

In this case however, the comedic models take turns. Isn't as effective.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.