oscaralbert Review of Picturesque Massachusetts

Picturesque Massachusetts (1942)

Individual, contemporary people seldom are named . . .

[7/10 · 21 October 2019]

. . . by the bloviating blowhard narrating this "travel" series, and it's not hard to see why this is, after viewing the deficient episode entitled PICTURESQUE MASSACHUSETTS. While hop-scotching across the southern coast of the Patriot State, the bloated bozo only singles out two folks to highlight. The first lucky individual is one "Chuck Alden." Charlie's claim to fame? His great grand pappy (times six!) knew a wench named "Priscilla." The other person in this myopic clown's crosshairs is some French maid who goes by "Hazel." Hazel is notorious for scrounging around the local dumps for broken bits of colored glass which she can add to her clinking clanking clattering collection of "gem-stone-like" junk. Completely overlooked by this self-proclaimed "Voice of the Globe" is the Kennedy Clan. While he traipses past their family compound Ohhing and Ahhing over an "artist colony" with the collective talent of a single sea gull, PT 109 Commander John Fitzgerald Kennedy is about to win World War Two with his critical coconut message. You can bet that the prophetic prognosticators of the always eponymous Warner Bros. studio would have had a lot to say about JFK's House of Heroes had one of THEM traversed Cape Cod. However, PICTURESQUE MASSACHUSETTS emanates from the Corrupt Fat Cat Den of the Groaning Lion, (aka, the Official Pachyderm Party Propaganda Plant).