Goofy Movies Number Six (1934)
** (out of 4)
Another entry in Pete Smith's "Goofy Movies" series, which has him narrating over silent film footage. Here we get various forms of "survival tips", which gets us scenes where cars race across tracks to beat a train, cars going off cliffs and various dangerous acts. This takes up the first five minutes then the final four are left with a fake movie with a character known as Mad Mike. I believe this is my third or fourth film from this series and to say they're hit and miss would be an understatement. The episode here really doesn't work because the narration is poorly written and none of it is very funny. I'm a big fan of the work of Smith but this here isn't one of his better moments. What worked best was seeing all the film clips from the silent movies and that's especially true during the first half when we see all these amazing stunts. I wish I knew what movies some of this stuff was from because I'm sure they're even more entertaining watching them on their own. The scene with the train going across the bridge that collapses is pretty interesting but the narration added to it does nothing.
** (out of 4)
Another entry in Pete Smith's "Goofy Movies" series, which has him narrating over silent film footage. Here we get various forms of "survival tips", which gets us scenes where cars race across tracks to beat a train, cars going off cliffs and various dangerous acts. This takes up the first five minutes then the final four are left with a fake movie with a character known as Mad Mike. I believe this is my third or fourth film from this series and to say they're hit and miss would be an understatement. The episode here really doesn't work because the narration is poorly written and none of it is very funny. I'm a big fan of the work of Smith but this here isn't one of his better moments. What worked best was seeing all the film clips from the silent movies and that's especially true during the first half when we see all these amazing stunts. I wish I knew what movies some of this stuff was from because I'm sure they're even more entertaining watching them on their own. The scene with the train going across the bridge that collapses is pretty interesting but the narration added to it does nothing.