This is a very pleasant short starring Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. Compared to other films I've seen with Bergen, this is among the very best, as it's a very pleasant little film.
Charlie and Edgar are flying above the African jungle when their plane runs out of gas. When they land, things look pretty hopeless until natives appear. But, their joy is short-lived, as these guys seem to be cannibals--albeit, the most polite and pleasant cannibals in film history! The jokes aren't too bad, the situation rather funny and compared to most films of the 30s, the humor does not come off as racist--which it easily could have considering the times. Nothing particularly inspired here but a good representation of Bergen at the height of his long career.
Charlie and Edgar are flying above the African jungle when their plane runs out of gas. When they land, things look pretty hopeless until natives appear. But, their joy is short-lived, as these guys seem to be cannibals--albeit, the most polite and pleasant cannibals in film history! The jokes aren't too bad, the situation rather funny and compared to most films of the 30s, the humor does not come off as racist--which it easily could have considering the times. Nothing particularly inspired here but a good representation of Bergen at the height of his long career.