There are two reasons I decided to watch this obscure movie: 1) Elizabeth Taylor-10 at the time-made her film debut here and 2) Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer made one of his post-"Our Gang" appearances here. They play the siblings of much older sister Peggy Moran whose only other film appearance I've seen was in One Night in the Tropics-Abbott & Costello's first movie. Like there, she also plays a humorously aggressive female not resistant to being a bit rude to men. Besides Alfalfa, another former cast member of his former series (though in entries way before his arrival) that appeared here was Edgar Kennedy who was a cop there. Here, he's a mayor who always corrects himself-or tries to-when using wrong contractions. Alfalfa would eventually be a player in my favorite movie-It's a Wonderful Life-and so would a fellow player here-Charles Halton. Neither appeared together there or here. The actual star is Hugh Herbert, a comedian who plays two roles here. I'll just say this was quite funny and screwy with all those players and some plot developments that must be seen to be believed. The version I saw on YouTube was washed out so if this is ever on DVD, I hope to see a clearer copy someday...
Review of There's One Born Every Minute
