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This movie is W.C. Field's best work to date. I believe I remember seeing this movie when I was maybe nine or ten years old, and we had this Cub Scout all-night thing in some gym. The idea was to try to stay up all night long. So they made us play these games and sports and do these silly crafts. The best part, though, was the movies they showed us, all of them little 10-minute super-8 films borrowed from Elmore Public Library. They had a bunch of 3 Stooges, Abbot and Costello, Little Rascals, Oliver and Hardy, and WC Fields movies. Guess what, even 25 years later, that stuff is still funny. I like to look at this stuff imagining I'm hearing these jokes for the first time. You really don't need to rely on gratuitous sex, violence, or even language for something to be funny. It's all such simple stuff, with simple technology. Another thing that's fun about this one is that you can tell the dialect change from the two generations, W.C. Fields' and his daughter's, in the conversations. And the old technology - the cars and the roads are all so ancient. Add on that lots of fun jokes, and we have a winner here.
Rating: 5 Godzillas