Thursday, May 29, 2014

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)


Universal Pictures
Directed by Edward Cline
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)

Fields plays himself in his final film: working for a fictional movie studio, teenage niece in tow, trying to break into pictures. He pitches a screenplay to an executive, leading to a movie-within-a-movie in which Fields jumps out of an airplane to retrieve a bottle of whiskey, lands on a remote mountain top where he teaches kissing games to a beautiful young woman who has never seen a man. He ends up engaged to her mother instead. Meanwhile back in Hollywood, he gets involved in a wild car chase taking a pregnant woman to the hospital, well sort of. A couple of good laughs, but precocious teen Gloria Jean as the niece is annoying, and the lack of a coherent plot makes it hard to follow.

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