IT'S IN THE BAG! (1945) ** You know, before the 1960's I don't believe that society at large had any idea how to do aesthetic anarchy. There were always visionaries, of course-Cervantes and Voltaire and Dali spring to mind-but most folk just had no idea. So they go on forever setting up this lousy lines, as if there being any punchline at all would vindicate everything. And then they would go a little bit wobbly, and I'm guessing that the audience would chortle, and they would all consider themselves entirely out of control. Fred Allen gets most of the lines and screen time, John Carradine is probably best, and Jack Benny may be the name that still reverberates the most, but a lot of these other guys were kind of big deals at the time too; which surely lent a bit more authority to a film that endeavours to take you places you've never been or knew you wanted to go, through the vehicle of the owner of a flea circus.
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