I don't know how anyone thought a comedy team as pathetic as "Brown and Carney" could be filmworthy, yet there are at least two features with them. Niether has an interesting personality, or even seems able to generate an individual personality. I guess since the fatter one,Carney, has a rubbery face, he's the "dumb" one, and Brown offers low speed rambling explainations, he's the "smart" one, but not so much as you'd notice if you weren't desperately trying to get something out of them.
They aren't supposed to be hard-luck types like all other teams are, or should be, to get the comedy started, because they somehow have a successful network radio show, and they're taken seriously, more or less, by authority types, as well as their girl co-writer.
It's a waste of much better actors Bela lugosi and (in his swan song) Lionel Atwill. I guess when you're down to this, your best years have passed by.
The plot's murderer mystery, where the city is terrorized by mastermind supervillian "The Cobra" is less than suspenseful, all is pretty routinely handled, and at no time, from the "Cobra's" secret den of horrors, or the excitement-killing back projection window ledge and roof scenes, does anything like real tension appear, it's all safe, and dull. This should have been a short, maybe. The less of it would be an improvement.
Review of Genius at Work
