Monday, July 29, 2013

Six of a Kind (1934)

Paramount Pictures
Directed by Leo McCarey
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)

Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland take a cross-country driving trip for their second honeymoon, but paying passengers George Burns and Gracie Allen try to ruin it with their zany sense of humor. For example, at the Grand Canyon, Gracie causes Boland to fall off the edge and end up on a tree branch, oblivious to the danger. Later, they end up in a western town where W.C. Fields is sheriff. His pool routine is the funniest bit in the film, and Fields would do a similar one in his next film, You're Telling Me!, only funnier and with a golf club instead of a pool cue.

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