16mm comedy "NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS" (1943) Robert Benchley

Description: Offered here is a beautiful print of the Robert Benchley comedy short "NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS" from 1943. These M.G.M. Benchley shorts are much more difficult to acquire than the Paramount shorts which Blackhawk Films sold back in the 1960's. These M.G.M. shorts were never licensed to the home movie market. 7/10 Off he goes, into the Wild Blue Yonder!- review by “wmorrow5923” courtesy I.m.d.b. Under the opening credits of this short comedy we hear a rousing rendition of "Off We Go, Into the Wild Blue Yonder," so perhaps it may come as a surprise to some viewers that after the credits are over we find ourselves looking not at a fleet of jet fighters or a team of heroic pilots but at a plump middle-aged man in a suit, who is peering into a crystal ball with comic intensity. This is humorist Robert Benchley on the verge of launching into one of his familiar nonsense lectures, this time answering written questions on various topics (allegedly) submitted by viewers. The subject matter ranges from the dangers of inflation to the use of elephants in warfare, but happily the questions don't matter at all, for they serve only as springboards for Benchley's patented brand of double-talk. The only wild blue yonder we're heading into is this man's delightfully disordered imagination. Benchley fans will enjoy this entry in his long-running series, “No News is Good News” offers a rather more modern (even Post-Modernist) approach to film comedy, at times inter-cutting Benchley's words with grainy newsreel footage in sharp edits that anticipate the later TV work of Ernie Kovacs and "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." At any rate, the main point here is that in this brief entry Mr. Benchley demonstrates he's still got the goods, comedy-wise, and, to paraphrase the man himself, I like to think the main points are the most important ones sometimes, don't you?ABOUT THE PRINT - This is nice original print. Condition is in excellent shape. Just a few splices of no consequence. It comes on an 400-foot reel / no V.S. issuesI have many more offerings on ebay under my alternate selling site STAN4837. Cut and paste this link for more movie memorabilia, DVDs, CDs, stamps, coins, artifacts, vinyl records and more....... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=386798197510&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=stanl4837

Price: 69 USD

Location: Sanborn, New York

End Time: 2024-08-20T03:11:12.000Z

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