It's obvious that the teaming of Hugh Herbert and Dudley Dickerson in this short is a pastiche of the type of comedy that the team of Jack Benny and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson had been doing on radio and in the movies (and would continue with on television) for years. Hugh's a playwright working on a mystery and he can't get anything done in the city due to street noise, so they haul it out to the country and end up stalked by a loose gorilla. People trying to find a costume party stop by so there's a few spooky laughs, especially when the partyers find out that the gorilla isn't a man in a suit. Plenty of slapstick so there's lots of laughs. Definitely one for the kiddies, that is if they have a 1940's style of humor appreciation.
Review of Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Tall, Dark and Gruesome
(1948)
A weekend in the country isn't the peace and quiet they planned on.
10 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers