I thought: Do I really want to watch a movie about a doctor's garden? Since Bing Crosby was in it I figured maybe he'd do a little crooning while fertilizing.
Bing didn't need to do any singing because he played a bad doctor. Not a bad doctor like Frank Burns on M*A*S*H*, but an EVIL bad doctor. Evil doctors don't sing, they kill patients. In fairness to Bing, he only knocks off residents who he feels are a hindrance to a blissful community.
I enjoyed Bing's performance. I think even if you didn't know who Bing was, you'd appreciate his acting in Dr. Cook's Garden.
I wondered about Frank Converse's character. He put 2 and 2 together pretty fast as far as figuring out Dr. Bing's murderous ways. Frank knows the victims have all been poisoned. And yet, like a complete idiot, he goes on a picnic with Dr. Bing and eats a sandwich dosed with some type of toxin. He seemed suspicious of the beverage in the thermos, why not the sandwich?
If I were Frank, I would have said: "Sure, I'll go on a picnic with you Dr. Bing, after all, it is a beautiful day. But let's swing by the Piggly Wiggly on the way to the bucolic setting, and I'll pick up a sandwich from the deli. Okay?"
And if Bing said, "Not okay," then Frank could have said, "Go ahead and go on your picnic without me. Maybe Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope got nothing going on and they'll go with you."
Bing didn't need to do any singing because he played a bad doctor. Not a bad doctor like Frank Burns on M*A*S*H*, but an EVIL bad doctor. Evil doctors don't sing, they kill patients. In fairness to Bing, he only knocks off residents who he feels are a hindrance to a blissful community.
I enjoyed Bing's performance. I think even if you didn't know who Bing was, you'd appreciate his acting in Dr. Cook's Garden.
I wondered about Frank Converse's character. He put 2 and 2 together pretty fast as far as figuring out Dr. Bing's murderous ways. Frank knows the victims have all been poisoned. And yet, like a complete idiot, he goes on a picnic with Dr. Bing and eats a sandwich dosed with some type of toxin. He seemed suspicious of the beverage in the thermos, why not the sandwich?
If I were Frank, I would have said: "Sure, I'll go on a picnic with you Dr. Bing, after all, it is a beautiful day. But let's swing by the Piggly Wiggly on the way to the bucolic setting, and I'll pick up a sandwich from the deli. Okay?"
And if Bing said, "Not okay," then Frank could have said, "Go ahead and go on your picnic without me. Maybe Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope got nothing going on and they'll go with you."