Lum & Abner Double Feature #1 (B&W)

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The longtime AM radio stars make their big-screen debuts as the beloved Arkansas shopkeepers host a fundraiser, play matchmaker and even try on gumshoes in Dreaming Out Loud (1940/81 min.) and The Bashful Bachelor (1942/78 min.).

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Lum and Abner Feature #1 review.......2005-09-26

I found this and the Feature #2 companion DVD a reak kick in the old Nostalgia keister. I saw these movies in the theatre when they were first released. That gives you an idea of how old I am. The two movies on #1 were a little scratchy but considering how old they are and what they may have looked like before restoring them, I was very pleased. I have had worse copies of old movies. I can't say if the humor would hold up to most of the last two generations, but for any of us oldtimers, they are worth the price. The same with feature #2.

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Clean, family fun
Soap Opera in the Cornfield

Dreaming Out Loud
Starring: Chester Lauck , Norris Goff , Frances Langford , Frank Craven , and Bobs Watson
Director: Harold Young
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ASIN: B0002PYSC4
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Clean, family fun.......2007-08-23

Back when this film was made, the majority of Americans still lived in the rural areas and still practiced traditional values. They found humor in everyday life and the comedians did not have to resort to jokes about body functions, sex and sexual preferences. They were true comedians. Life was filled with hard work and often tragedy. Couples saw marriage, not seeing how quickly into the relationship they could have sex, as the fullest expression of their relationship and love.

It is in this kind of world that Lum and Abner operated. This film and all of the movies in this series is great. Too bad Going to Town is not on DVD. A great movie with a great cast.

Soap Opera in the Cornfield.......2004-11-18

Lum & Abner (Chester Lauck and Norris Goff) were a popular radio team for 25 years beginning in 1931, and they moved to the big screen in 1940 for DREAMING OUT LOUD, which was popular enough to lead to half a dozen sequels (the last, a belated fare-thee-well, was produced in 1956). It is one heck of a strange film, part backwoods comedy, part heart-tugging drama; it's as if a soap opera broke out in the cornfields of HEE-HAW.

Proprietors of the Jot `em Down General Store in Pine Ridge, Arksansas, Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody have a nice perch with which to comment on the goings-on in town (what goings-on there are, if any) and get involved as Mary Worth-type helpers to young lovers, kids with dark secrets, the town drunk, and anybody else stumbling through. (Note that Lauck and Goff were in their mid-30s when this film was produced, but were made up to appear 30 to 50 years older).

The first third of the picture is pure corn, as our heroes discuss changing the signs in front of the store (one says "Fall Clearance Sale", t'other says "Spring Sweep Sale", and they finally decide to leave `em both up in case'n they ever decide to have another one of either). There's a shiftless gentleman who sleeps by the stove all day; Abner explains that he has been tryin' ter get a position as steamboat captain on a riverboat. "There ain't no river near here," Lum retorts. "He'll wait," Abner responds. Perhaps the funniest scene has the two of them playing checkers; when Lum quits, Abner decides to go right on playing checkers by his lonesome, only he gets in a big argument when he accuses himself of cheating.

From this urbane, witty photoplay we slip right into the crisis, when the spunky young daughter of the town's drunk becomes the victim of a hit-and-run driver. The drunk sobers up and becomes the town's assistant constable, and Lum and Abner help him look for the man who hit his daughter. They also assist the town doctor who's had a stroke, advise the doctor's son in his romance with the town's beautiful young postmistress, and try and talk the town's mean old rich lady into donating some much-needed medical supplies. I was sitting there thinking, "Gosh, if only somebody would burst out into song, this movie would be perfect." Within seconds, Frances Langford (the aforementioned postmistress) begins warbling "Dreaming Out Loud", thereby giving the film its title.

The best thing about this mishmash is the supporting cast; you'll find Frank Craven (SON OF DRACULA), much-used character actor Irving Bacon, Clara Blandick (Auntie Em in WIZARD OF OZ), Robert Wilcox (MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN), and Phil Harris! Director Harold Young also gave us THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934) and a trio of Universal horrors, THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1942), THE FROZEN GHOST (1945) and JUNGLE CAPTIVE (also 1945).

DREAMING OUT LOUD and some of its sequels are available on DVD from Alpha. DREAMING's print and transfer are okay, a bit jumpy and seeming to be missing a little footage, but quite acceptable if you're really in the mood for a Lum and Abner festival.

[19 Comedy Flicks] Love Laughs At Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Never Wave At a WAC, Nothing Sacred, the Nasty Rabbit, New Fave, One Week, Parlor Bedroom and Bath, Smallest Show on Earth, Two Weeks to Live, Bashful Bachelor, so This Iswashington, Dreaming Out Loud, Clancy Street Boys, East Side Kids, Little Tough Guy, Spooks Run Wild, Flying Deuces, Stolen Tools

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[19 Comedy Flicks] Love Laughs At Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Never Wave At a WAC, Nothing Sacred, the Nasty Rabbit, New Fave, One Week, Parlor Bedroom and Bath, Smallest Show on Earth, Two Weeks to Live, Bashful Bachelor, so This Iswashington, Dreaming Out Loud, Clancy Street Boys, East Side Kids, Little Tough Guy, Spooks Run Wild, Flying Deuces, Stolen Tools

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DVD FEATURES: DIGITALLY MASTERED, INTERACTIVE MENUS, CHAPTER SELECTIONS, ENHANCED AUDIO 5.1

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Dreaming Out Loud/The Bashful Bachelor

Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
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ASIN: B0006FYO5G
Release Date: 2004-01-01

*17 Features / 4 DVD Box Set* the East Side Kids / Love Laughs At Andy Hardy / My Dear Secretary / One Week / Two Weeks Two Live / the Bashful Bachelor / Dreaming Out Loud / ... & Many More...

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*17 Features / 4 DVD Box Set* the East Side Kids / Love Laughs At Andy Hardy / My Dear Secretary / One Week / Two Weeks Two Live / the Bashful Bachelor / Dreaming Out Loud / ... & Many More...

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17 FULL LENGTH MOVIES; Two Weeks To Live, The Bashful Bachelor, So This Is Washington, Dreaming Out Loud, Clancy Street Boys, The East Side Kids (the movie), Little Tough Guy, Spooks Run Wild, Love Laughs At Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Never Wave At A WAC, Nothing Sacred, The Nasty Rabbit, New Facts, One Week, Parlor Bedroom & Bath, The Smallest Show On Earth

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Dreaming Out Loud
Starring: Chester Luack; Norris Goff; Frances Langford; Frank Craven; Bobs Watson; Robert Wilcox; Clara Blandick
Director: Harold Young
Manufacturer: Reel Enterprises
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ASIN: B000QCUZMU
Release Date: 2007-05-07

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Radio stars Lum Edwards (Lauck) and Abner Peabody (Goff) make their film debut in this film about two small-town men and their general store, the "Jot-Em-Down" store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. Lum and Abner are dedicated to the effort to raise money for and construct the town's first mobile hospital unit. They are also performing an investigation to find the hit-and-run driver who killed little boy Jimmy (Watson), and also manage to find time to bring together lovers Dr. Kenneth Barnes (Wilcox) and Alice (Langford).

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