cricket30 Review of Two Against the World

Two Against the World (1936)

As many others have observed here regarding films from the film studio aptly named . . .

[9/10 · 26 July 2018]

. . . "Warner Bros.," ONE FATAL HOUR provides a bare-bones warning to Today's U.S. Public regarding our current sorry State of Affairs. (This flick enjoys the twin benefits of not only being guided by Warner's unmatched Foretellers of the Future during its original production process, but later having eight minutes of "fluff" intended only for its contemporary theatrical audiences excised when edited for Our Modern Televisions and more tellingly retitled, as the initial TWO AGAINST THE WORLD and the even more sophomoric THE CASE OF MRS. PEMBROOK marquee titles were thankfully disassociated from this cautionary tale.) ONE FATAL HOUR deals frankly with the sexual perversion and War on Women now being waged at the highest levels of the USA's Media and Government. "Dr. Leavenworth" SHOULD be locked up in the Leavenworth federal penitentiary for life (or, better yet, his date with the Guillotine!) as a rabble-rousing Populist catering to a demonic base of nominally religious "core supporters" while enjoying a salacious private life as an alcoholic compulsive grabber of feminine genitalia, almost as bad as the mobster occupying our Once Hallowed Oval Office now. As "Edith" screams at him "WHY DID YOU KILL MY MOTHER?!" again and again for the climax of ONE FATAL HOUR, "Sherry" notes that such Public Enemies as Dr. Leavenworth and the future Game-Show-Host-in-Chief possess "squashy, putrid little souls" willing to televise their own mothers' funerals if they think it will add an additional buck to their mountains of ill-gotten wealth. "Jim," Edith, and "Gloria"--all victims of Leavenworth's Corrupt Corporate Class--each pick up guns while searching for a solution to this Capitalist Problem. Please watch ONE FATAL HOUR, and then support your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps)!