Utter mess concerning the attempt to 1) get the goods on a publisher in league with a gambler. 2)catch the killer of one of the men who had the goods on the publisher and gambler 30 Catch the killer of the publisher. 4)reunite a singer and her beau who literally has the book and publisher and gambler. Somewhere in this mess Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen perform and Mortimer Snerd shows up occasionally, for no reason.
The jokes are mostly unfunny, the songs fair and the mystery...what mystery? The plot line makes no sense. This is a more a collection of unfunny bits none of which come together. Its a 70 minutes movie that feels like its three times that. The plot doesn't go forward so much as careen from pillar to post in a random sort of direction. Watchable but ultimately a dreadful waste of time and talent, its just not worth sitting through the bad to get to the few good bits. Easily the worst film I've seen Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen in.(thats not a slap to anything but this film because all the other films I've seen have been enjoyable)
The jokes are mostly unfunny, the songs fair and the mystery...what mystery? The plot line makes no sense. This is a more a collection of unfunny bits none of which come together. Its a 70 minutes movie that feels like its three times that. The plot doesn't go forward so much as careen from pillar to post in a random sort of direction. Watchable but ultimately a dreadful waste of time and talent, its just not worth sitting through the bad to get to the few good bits. Easily the worst film I've seen Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen in.(thats not a slap to anything but this film because all the other films I've seen have been enjoyable)