Arsenic and Old Lace was the first Capra comedy I ever saw, long before I cared about who Frank Capra was. As a young teenager watching a Halloween special, I thought it was howlingly funny. When I watched it again as an adult, I thought it was pretty bad. Nowadays, I still think it’s oneContinue reading “Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)”
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Duck Soup (1933)
I confess that I never cared much for the Marx Brothers. I was always aware that this was a minority opinion. I just didn’t find them funny. As a teenager, I thought they were basically just cut-ups, forcing laughs and trying to take control of every situation — uncomfortably, now that I look back, likeContinue reading “Duck Soup (1933)”