RIDING ON AIR(1937)
Not a great movie! Joe gets swindled - again!
Comes out smelling like a rose - again! C
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
Joe E. Brown is a small-town newspaperman
with an assortment of hobbies, like ham
radio and flying. He gets himself accepted
as the local correspondent of a Chicago
newspaper and is hoodwinked by Guy Kibbee
as a successful investor, whom he brings
back to town to organize a company for
a local radio-controlled plane. Brown
also has a girl -- Florence Rice -- and
a theory he is pursuing for the paper
about a man who was shot seven times
and his bones broken.
It's an elaborately plotted comedy,
done during the period when Brown left
Warner Brothers for independent producer
David Loew. While the story is nicely
complicated, the gag structure, supervised
by Eddie Sedgwick, is pretty tired.
There's a thrill comedy sequence, but
it's clearly shot on a set with a
wing-walker doubling for a brief few
seconds. Instead, the comedy depends
on Brown's screen persona and big-mouth
shtick. It is not, alas, enough to
make this movie very funny. - boblipton
Joe E. Brown ... Elmer Lane
Guy Kibbee ... J. Rutherford 'Doc' Waddington
Florence Rice ... Betty Harrison
Vinton Hayworth ... Harvey Schumann (as Vinton Haworth)
Anthony Nace ... Bill Hilton
Harlan Briggs ... Mr. Harrison
Andrew Tombes ... Eddie Byrd
Clem Bevans ... Sheriff
Harry C. Bradley ... Mayor
Murray Alper ... Gunner in Mob Plane (uncredited)
Don Brodie ... Charlie (uncredited)
Benny Burt ... Character (uncredited)
Budd Buster ... Townsman (uncredited)
George Chandler ... Barber Shop Hangeron (uncredited)
Monte Collins ... Barber (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan ... Chicago Daily Blade Editor (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps ... Daily Star Editor (uncredited)
Lester Dorr ... Daily Star Reporter (uncredited)
Tom Dugan ... Brad, Chicago Detective (uncredited)
Charlie Hall ... Singer / Barber (uncredited)
Si Jenks ... Deaf Town Character (uncredited)
George Lloyd ... Detective (uncredited)
Jack Norton ... Chicago Daily Blade Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor ... Detective Flynn (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe ... Radium Plane 23 Copilot (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore ... Air Official (uncredited)
Frank Sully ... Harrison's Truck Driver (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan ... Radium Plane 23 Pilot (uncredited)
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