When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
- J. Pinkham Whinney
- (as Charlie Ruggles)
- Traffic Cop
- (uncredited)
- Hotel Desk Clerk in Philipsburg
- (uncredited)
- Eyeshade Man
- (uncredited)
- Detective
- (uncredited)
- Woman
- (uncredited)
- Gillette's Secretary
- (uncredited)
- Drunk
- (uncredited)
- Tourist's Wife
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Local sponsor interest was minimal, and its initial television broadcasts were few and far between. Its earliest documented telecast took place in Denver 25 May 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9); it first aired in Miami Saturday, April 2, 1960 on Comedy Playhouse on WTVJ (Channel 4). It was released on DVD February 4, 2003 as one of three George Burns and Gracie Allen films, and again November 15, 2016 as a single as part of the Universal Vault Series.
- GoofsGeorge Burns' character Name is shown onscreen as "George Edward", but "Edwards" is consistently spoken as his surname.
- Quotes
Gracie De Vore: Oh, what's that?
George Edwards: You wouldn't understand. This is a map.
Gracie De Vore: Oh, sure, I know what a map is. It's what you take every afternoon when you're tired. I always take an afternoon map.
George Edwards: An afternoon map?
Gracie De Vore: Sure.
George Edwards: I bet when you went to school, you never even reached the fifth grade.
Gracie De Vore: Aw, don't be silly. I spent three of the happiest years of my life in the fifth grade.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982)
It's always fascinating how certain plot premises can be worked for either highballing comedy to a deadly serious situation. Mary Boland of the ditzy and Charlie Ruggles of the henpecked play their usual characters who are planning to motor all the way to California. To share expenses they advertise for someone to share the ride. They get Burns and Allen and a monster of a dog. That same premise was a deadly serious one several generations later in Kalifornia.
Of course if you're traveling with Gracie Allen you know you're going to be going absolutely nuts trying to figure her Monty Pythonesque reasoning about the whole world. And if that ain't enough you get to run into W.C. Fields, part time sheriff and full time pool hustler who's living in sin with Alison Skipworth. But back then we didn't delve into such things.
A real classic comedy from the thirties, not to be missed.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 25, 2005
Details
- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1