Wheeler and Woolsey Double Feature

Wheeler and Woolsey Double FeatureTheir dialogue zings with Pre Code sauciness, their barbed glee skewers social norms and their creativity includes daffy flights of song and dance. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, from their feature debut in 1929 until 1937, tickled fans with a steady skein of comedy madness. Peach O Reno has the duo as Reno divorce lawyers eager to spring paying customers from the holy bonds. At night, the law office becomes a casino, a gamble of a storyline that

The Milky Way(1940) 2

sky-diving beauty named Malibu fills up the screen in a gleeful sand-and-surf-and-sex satire based on Ira Wallach's Muscle Beach

these two men will have to rise above their differences

A flashpoint of spies and counterspies

until Smith's grinning houseboy

a handsome young stranger in a snakeskin jacket

resulting in a destructive stampede

" college freshman Tom Butterfield asks a doctor about an orphaned little boy

and the last of the nearly 80 films in his renowned career

and the music includes the silken sounds of bandleader Freddy Martin

Dina Merrill as Max's neurotic wife and Keenan Wynn as Max's formidable "best enemy" see action as well

" 15-year-old gamine Daisy Clover sings from the silver screen to an adoring public