You're Telling Me! -
Pretty good W.C Fields film with plenty of wry one-liners. Like many comedy features of the 1930s, it doesn't outstay its welcome – clocking in at just over an hour.
Fields plays amateur inventor Sam Bisbee. A chance meeting with a down-to-earth princess quickly elevates his reputation when she visits his hometown and looks him up, especially in the eyes of snobby Mrs Murchison (played to perfection by Kathleen Howard). Her son Bob Murchison wants to marry Bisbee's daughter Pauline and Princess Lescaboura's arrival certainly helps sway his mother's haughty attitude and approval.
Chief among delights in this film are Bisbee's madcap inventions – including a device to knock out burglars who chance to sit down, although my favourite moment is when Fields is accidentally handed a jug of roach killer instead of liquor. On being handed the real liquor jug, he decides he doesn't like the taste and opts to continue swigging the roach killer!
Pretty good W.C Fields film with plenty of wry one-liners. Like many comedy features of the 1930s, it doesn't outstay its welcome – clocking in at just over an hour.
Fields plays amateur inventor Sam Bisbee. A chance meeting with a down-to-earth princess quickly elevates his reputation when she visits his hometown and looks him up, especially in the eyes of snobby Mrs Murchison (played to perfection by Kathleen Howard). Her son Bob Murchison wants to marry Bisbee's daughter Pauline and Princess Lescaboura's arrival certainly helps sway his mother's haughty attitude and approval.
Chief among delights in this film are Bisbee's madcap inventions – including a device to knock out burglars who chance to sit down, although my favourite moment is when Fields is accidentally handed a jug of roach killer instead of liquor. On being handed the real liquor jug, he decides he doesn't like the taste and opts to continue swigging the roach killer!