There are several films where the Dog outshines the human cast. Not since George Ali playing Nana the Dog in the 1924 silent version of Peter pan, has a dog dominated a film like Archie does. Archie the dog carries this RKO B feature which had a script thrown together. in both cases, these players are in their lone movie role. What is amazing is the A-List Cast.
Farley Granger does better in other genre type of films but here is quite manic in a screw ball type of way. He is married to Shelley Winters (age 31 and sexy) who is henpecked by the wicked mother-in-law Margalo Gillmore (who just happens to have a role in a Disney TV Peter Pan in 1960). From there, we have a supporting cast that would be any film makers dream. William Demarest did a lot of work going back to silent films and is always great. Francis L. Sullivan is fat Freddy who died young in 1956 at age 53 is an excellent actor who is best known for Oliver Twist in the 1940's and is not remembered because he left so soon. Sheldon Leonard and Lon Chaney together? How often does that happen.
The script as a whole which tries to be a Comedy/Mystery works out better for laughs than for the mystery which gets kind of lost with the laughs. Granger gets to carry Winters around on stairs a lot, and gets totally confused and confuses his wife, mother-in-law, and Demarest to beyond reason. In the end, the great cast makes it a pleasant afternoon film. I think Archie only has 1 film is because after the dog eats bacon and lamb chops, he got too sick to act in any other films.
Farley Granger does better in other genre type of films but here is quite manic in a screw ball type of way. He is married to Shelley Winters (age 31 and sexy) who is henpecked by the wicked mother-in-law Margalo Gillmore (who just happens to have a role in a Disney TV Peter Pan in 1960). From there, we have a supporting cast that would be any film makers dream. William Demarest did a lot of work going back to silent films and is always great. Francis L. Sullivan is fat Freddy who died young in 1956 at age 53 is an excellent actor who is best known for Oliver Twist in the 1940's and is not remembered because he left so soon. Sheldon Leonard and Lon Chaney together? How often does that happen.
The script as a whole which tries to be a Comedy/Mystery works out better for laughs than for the mystery which gets kind of lost with the laughs. Granger gets to carry Winters around on stairs a lot, and gets totally confused and confuses his wife, mother-in-law, and Demarest to beyond reason. In the end, the great cast makes it a pleasant afternoon film. I think Archie only has 1 film is because after the dog eats bacon and lamb chops, he got too sick to act in any other films.