Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Mississippi (1935); 6-

Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel...
(73 mins.) Released 1935-03-22
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith

comedy, musical

originally posted 25 Oct 2017 14:49

4 Rodgers & Hart songs; best known: It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget); I don't love this arrangement. The pub.dom print is decent.

I don't like antebellum times and this is no exception. Southern honor and dueling and servants. I waffled whether to rate this 5+.

WC Fields and Bing Crosby sound like an interesting pair, but see the prior sentence. Joan Bennett is still blonde (her natural color); she will be more striking as a brunette.

Paramount, dir. Sutherland & Ruggles; 6-