Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: DVD00147

by Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, Dennis O’Keefe, Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, William Gargan, Al Bridge, Frances Ramsden, Raymond Walburn, Georgia Caine, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Hamilton, Rudy Vallee, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: La Crosse, WI : Platinum Disc, ©2004.

Notes: Contains four feature films; (347 mins. Black & white)

Chapters: Topper returns (1941, 90 min.) — In this slapstick mystery-comedy, Roland Young is back as Cosmo Topper, a banker who picks up a couple of pretty hitchhikers, Gail Richards (Joan Blondell) and Ann Carrington (Carole Landis), and drops them off at a creepy, old mansion Ann has inherited. When Gail is murdered that night by a mysterious attacker whose intended victim was Ann, the spirit of Gail visits Topper and convinces him to help her identify the killer and to prevent the same fate from befalling her friend. Together the unlikely pair set out to uncover the villain’s identity but wind up in plenty of crazy calamities and madcap mishaps along the way!

The milky way (1936, 90 min.) — The Milky Way is a charming, yet hilarious comedy centered on shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Harold Lloyd), who appears to have knocked out boxing champ Speed McFarland (William Gargan) and his sparring partner in a brawl over Burleigh’s sister. In truth, Burleigh simply ducked the men’s punches, and they knocked each other out. But the newspaper got wind of the story, and now Burleigh is being heralded as a hero. In an attempt to salvage the champ’s career, the fight manager convinces Burleigh to fight in a series of fixed matches that end in a title fight he must lose to Speed McFarland. But making a wiry wimp like Burleigh appear to be a boxing champ won’t be easy!

The sin of Harold Diddlebock (1946, 91 min.) — Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd), a one-time football hero, realizes that he is a failure when he is fired from his job nearly twenty years later. His dreams dashed, Harold is coaxed into a bar and when he tells the bartender that he’s never had a drink in his life, the barkeep creates a rather potent alcoholic concoction he dubs, “The Diddlebock.” After one sip, Harold loses all inhibition and blacks out for an entire day. When he wakes up the following morning, he discovers that he is now the owner of a horse drawn carriage complete with a driver, and a circus full of hungry lions. From this day forward, Diddlebock’s life will be anything but ordinary!

Hook, line and sinker (1930, 76 min.) — The comedy duo Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as a pair of fast-talking insurance salesmen who agree to help a woman on the run from a fixed marriage renovate a seedy hotel that she owns. In order to drum up some business, they advertise the run-down motel as a luxurious resort for the rich. Their fraudulent campaign is more than successful, and soon they find themselves ensnared in some tricky situations that they can’t talk their way out of.

OCLC #: 436811775 (additional info from publisher website)