Years before becoming the comic foil to husband Desi Arnaz Sr. On "I Love Lucy", that fabulous redhead Lucille Ball got to be the frazzled spouse of a dizzy husband, here the squeaky voiced Joe Penner, the Adam Sandler of his day. In a series of programmers at RKO from 1936 to 1940, this radio comic tried but failed to establish himself as a top film comic.
This is one of his more enjoyable programmers where he plays a bubble-headed bank clerk who wins a trailer which he decides to sleep in after a fight with wife Ball. A group of bank robbers (lead by the always villainous Bradley Page) steal the trailer with the sleeping Penner still inside, taking him on the ride of his life. Of course, Ball ends up in the trailer (something which would chase her in several other films) and the trailer gets loose from its car on a mountain road where it is in danger of going over the side.
There's enough laughs to make this a tad better than the many other comic programmers, but Lucy fans would have to wait a while to see her become the most beloved bubble- head on a new medium where she became the most famous female comic in entertainment history.
This is one of his more enjoyable programmers where he plays a bubble-headed bank clerk who wins a trailer which he decides to sleep in after a fight with wife Ball. A group of bank robbers (lead by the always villainous Bradley Page) steal the trailer with the sleeping Penner still inside, taking him on the ride of his life. Of course, Ball ends up in the trailer (something which would chase her in several other films) and the trailer gets loose from its car on a mountain road where it is in danger of going over the side.
There's enough laughs to make this a tad better than the many other comic programmers, but Lucy fans would have to wait a while to see her become the most beloved bubble- head on a new medium where she became the most famous female comic in entertainment history.