It's in the Bag! (1945)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Richard Wallace

Writers:

Lewis R. Foster (screen treatment) and
Fred Allen (screen treatment) ...

Release Date:

21 April 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Plot Keywords:

Chair | Flea Circus | Heir | Penthouse | Inheritance

Cast

Fred Allen	...	Fred F. Trumble Floogle
Jack Benny	...	Himself
William Bendix	...	Bill Bendix
Binnie Barnes	...	Eve Floogle
Robert Benchley	...	Parker
Jerry Colonna	...	Dr. Greengrass, Psychiatrist
John Carradine	...	Jefferson T. Pike
Gloria Pope	...	Marion Floogle
William Terry	...	Perry Parker
Minerva Pious	...	Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum
Richard Tyler	...	Homer Floogle (as Dickie Tyler)
Sidney Toler	...	Detective Sully
George Cleveland	...	Busby, Hotel Manager
John Miljan	...	Mr. Arnold
Ben Welden	...	Monty the Bookie

Also Known As:

The Fifth Chair (Australia) (UK)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (PCA #10575) | UK:U | Sweden:15

Company:

Manhattan Productions

Quotes:

Eve Floogle: You mean last year's diamonds? Oh no, we don't bother with them. You see, we just throw them out. They get so shabby, you know.

Movie Connections:

References The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

A Donald Duck Comic on film

Well, actually more like an "Uncle Scrooge" adventure turned into a movie, with acerbic Fred Allen subbing for Carl Barks' peripatetic miser, running into, across and over a panoply of bizarre characters in search of (what else, Uncle Scrooge?) a lost fortune. "Bag" offers the usual Barks-type exotic locales -- there's a byzantine movie theater that seems deliberately Disney-esque -- and colorful characters, here embodied by some surprising Hollywood figures (Rudy Vallee, Don Ameche, Jerry Colonna, etc,)The inevitable encounter with jack Benny is funny enough, but my favorite cameo here was etched by John Carradine as an organ-playing arch-villain, complete with cape and top-hat. Not to be missed!