On Our Merry Way
by George Stevens, John Huston, King Vidor, Leslie Fenton
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Actor: Burgess Meredith, Harry James, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Paulette GoddardDirector: George Stevens, John Huston, King Vidor, Leslie Fenton
Brand: Kino International
Writer: Arch Oboler
Writer: John O'Hara
Writer: Laurence Stallings
Writer: Lou Breslow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 1662
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of On Our Merry Way
Movie Review: .....One of the Best Comedies of ....1948
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this comedy in 1948 at the RKO Keith Memorial Theatre...in those days, if a movie was held over for a 2nd week, it meant the movie/goer fans [millions of them] considered a film to be a BIG/HUGE hit...well, this movie remained for 3 weeks in Boston and it was hilarious from start to finish...a trilogy of funny skits by: Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [big band musicians]...the lovely brunette/star Dorothy Lamour's skit....and Fred MacMurray with William Demarest...decades later the latter duo teamed up in TVs, "My Three Sons" fame...you want laffs??...then get this DVD...it's rather pricey [why, I don't know]...the important thing is I'm glad it wasn't lost to the mist and fog of proven films.....SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMF
Summary of On Our Merry Way
ON OUR MERRY WAY - DVD MovieMade during the heyday of Hollywood anthology films (such as O. Henry's Full House and Tales of Manhattan), this meandering movie is wound around the adventures of a lowly classified-ad clerk (Burgess Meredith, who also produced) who plays roving "man on the street reporter" for a day. He asks the question, "What influence has a baby had on your life?" and gets a collection of comical responses. Hapless jazz musicians Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart mistake the word "baby" for "babe" and describe how a shapely trumpet-playing dish upended their lives, movie star Dorothy Lamour remembers how a child star turned an Iowa day player into a South Seas screen goddess, and Fred MacMurray tells a story suspiciously similar to "The Ransom of Red Chief." It's fun to see Fonda stumble and stammer through a slapstick performance and Lamour spoof her Polynesian Princess image, but it's a lightweight lark with only fitfully funny stories.
Officially credited to King Vidor and Leslie Fenton, it also received uncredited assistance from John Huston and George Stevens in the Fonda-Stewart story. None of them show much facility for slapstick and their styles never meld. The film lurches from one gag to another, only settling down for MacMurray's story, where his easy delivery and chemistry with future "My Three Sons" costar William Demarest overcomes the clumsy direction. Paulette Goddard also rises above her material in a small role as Meredith's sharp and sexy wife. --Sean Axmaker
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