Hiss and Yell (1946) User Reviews

Be forewarned of the train service menu presented here...

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 1 September 2018]

A women's disembodied head that winks causes nervous train passenger Vera Vague much stress here as she thinks it is real, and magician Barton Yarborough doesn't explain, coming off as sinister and creepy in his every action. This Oscar nominated short isn't as funny as it sounds, once again forced and pretty much a one joke affair that will have you amused by the realistic looking head but possibly grossed out in the sequence where Yarborough offers to share his lunch with Vague, going through a list of food that sounds like body parts. It's rather juvenile in structure, but some moments in this farce do provide some hard laughs. A visual gag with Vague at the end is very clever, however, ending it on a positive note.