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Blondie 16: Blondie Knows Best [VHS]
by (Cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.) (Cinematographer: Philip Tannura) (Editor: Aaron Stell) (Producer: Burt Kelly) (Writer: Al Martin) (Writer: Chic Young) (Writer: Edward Bernds)
Product Group: Video
Studio: Bridgestone
ISBN: 1563716623
UPC: 095163922436
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 69 minutes
Release Date: 2002-02-19
SKU: 080726024UNB
Condition: Like New
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Customer Reviews
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Dagwood's Big Adventure
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The film begins with Dagwood being treated by two doctors; they will pay him $500 if they can test a truth serum on him. [This is a preview.] Dagwood seems late for work. Blondie reminds him it is Sunday. They talk about money matters. Dagwood visits the new neighbor and offers to help. Things quickly go wrong with Conroy's car. Now Dagwood needs money for repairs. Mr. Dithers calls and tells him of an important job opportunity that will save the company. Young Alvin gives legal advice to Blondie: Dagwood wasn't served personally with the summons. Mr. Dithers' car is bumped by another driver. He is in a bad mood and fires Bumstead. But Dithers decides he needs Bumstead to handle Charles Peabody. There is a very funny office scene. [This is Hollywood's version of office life.] Dithers must provide entertainment for an important customer. Dagwood never lies to Blondie; besides she always catches him.
Two men with an accent offer extra money to Dagwood. Charles Peabody figures out the trick of substitution and will not do business with the Dithers Construction Company. Dagwood must still avoid the process server. But a new customer wants to deal with Dithers (Bumstead) so Dagwood's job is saved. There is a new complication when Dagwood visits the doctors doing medical research. Blondie and Dithers discover where Dagwood went and go there. So does Mr. Peabody, along with the children and Daisy and her pups. The film tells about sodium pentothal, the "truth serum". Dagwood cannot tell a lie! The truth saves the deal with Peabody and his construction contract. Dagwood will be able to sleep on the job. All's well that ends well.
This must be one of the funniest films in the series. The monetary figures are quite outdated.
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Decidedly Inferior To The Comic Strip.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-02-13
Chic Young's very popular comic strip has always been entertaining and was utilized by Columbia Pictures as foundation for the Blondie film series (this one is number 18 of 28!), yet it is puzzling to some as to the cause of the success of these movies as they are shot through with inanity, strongly the case here. In this chapter, Dagwood Bumstead's boss Mr. Dithers is involved in a verbal altercation over a parking space in front of his office, not realizing that the man with whom he is arguing is a person that he hopes to persuade into signing a lucrative contract, and when he discovers the fact, he cajoles Dagwood, whom he has just fired, to masquerade as him in order to complete the business deal. The impersonation entails Dagwood's entertaining the prospective client (with "borrowed" women) at a night club where circumstances prescribe that he be discovered by Blondie and after the expected commotion has simmered down, Dagwood serves as a subject for a team of odd scientists who are testing a truth serum and have offered him $500. The feeblest element within the Blondie films is Dagwood, interpreted by Arthur Lake as an individual who ranks barely above an imbecile with his grating one-note mannerisms quite far removed from Young's original so that chirpy Penny Singleton, as Blondie, seems far more substantive, in comparison, than she should. Some talented actors are wasted in this slapstick episode, including Steven Geray, Jerome Cowan, and Jean Willes, all defeated by their puerile dialogue with only little Marjorie Kent, as Cookie Bumstead, being effective (one of the few appealing elements of the series is the chronologic aging of the children); her winning performance is fitting as the targeted audience apparently is from three to four years of age, and torpid.
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Dagwood trys to be a good neighbor.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-04-30
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the 18th film in the "Blondie" film series. The film begins with new opening credits. (but same "funny face, funny face" tune), giving up the usual postman (Dick Weesel) and the airmail intro. Once again, Dagwood's (Arthur Lake) alarm clock didn't go off so he thinks he is late for work. But Blondie (Penny Singleton) reminds him it's Sunday. Alexander (Larry Simms) and Cookie (Marjorie Kent) are ready for breakfast and Cookie has naturally lost a tooth. Danny Mummert is back as "Alvin". Alvin has some lawyer sense in this one. He drops by to tell the Bumsteads they have a new neighbor who is a "sourpuss". As part of the Good Neighbor Policy, Dagwood runs over to meet the new neighbor Mr. Conroy (Arthur Loft). Unfortunatly, Dagwood trying to be helpful ends up backing Mr. Conroy's automobile into the garage. He now owes Mr. Conroy $500. Alvin tells Dagwood Mr. Conroy is a lawyer. Next thing they know, Conroy has issued a summons on Dagwood to appear in Superior Court.
Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges) makes an interesting appearance as a process server.
This is the final appearance of Jonathan Hale as "J.C. Dithers". Jerome Cowan, who plays "Charles Peabody" in this film becomes a regular in the next films.
The man sitting in the park bench with "Blondie" is Fred F. Sears.
Every time you hear "Hi-Ho Club", makes you want to have a cracker doesn't it?
Trivia Note: Larry Simms and Danny Mummert both were in "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) although not in a scene together.
The next film in the series: BLONDIE'S BIG MOMENT (1947).
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