One of my all time favorites.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The third and final movie in the Wally "The Fox" Benton series starring Red Skelton. In this one, Wally and sweetheart Carol (Ann Rutherford) are still trying to get married. Their plans are interrupted by the police thinking Wally is a killer. So Wally, Carol, and Chester (Rags Ragland) all find themselves on the run from the cops. Along for the ride is a reporter (Jean Rogers) trying to get a story.Red's funny as usual. Ann gets less to do and not as many funny lines as the previous two movies. Rags Ragland, the only constant in the series besides the two leads, is hilarious here. The scene arguing with the telephone operator is a hoot. Other highlights are the elevator shaft scene and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Good cast includes William Frawley, Henry O'Neill, Sam Levene, and Ray Collins. Each movie in the series had a second prominent female actress behind Ann Rutherford. This time it's the very likable Jean Rogers. This was Rutherford's last film on her MGM contract. She would continue acting for decades and even have decent roles in a couple of big movies. But, for the most part, her career trajectory started to decline after she left MGM. Which is a shame. It's a fun movie, better than the second but not as good as the first. Skelton fans will no doubt enjoy it.

Well 'screwball comedy' doesn't even begin to define the territory this picture covers, with Red Skelton heading the cast as a radio detective personality inadvertently tagged as a murderer by his chauffeur cum press agent (Rags Ragland). I always enjoyed watching Red's variety shows as a kid, but this is the first movie I've ever seen him in, and it was a pretty good introduction. His comic timing is perfect, and it was cool seeing him do a quick tryout for a character he brought to his TV series by name of Clem Kadiddlehopper. That would have been right after the suitcase stuffing scene when he transforms his hat and face into a goofy caricature of himself.The film is so fast paced and frenetic that it's easy to forget where the whole thing started, but basically, Wally 'The Fox' Benton (Skelton) and his bride to be (Ann Rutherford) get sidetracked by a murder case involving a character who calls himself The Constant Reader. Chronicle newspaper reporter Jean Pringle (Jean Rogers) is hastily assigned to cover the case in progress, and instantly gets caught up in the shenanigans. Along with Rags Ragland, the quartet get involved in some fast paced hi-jinx, including an unbelievably staged elevator scene where the four of them form a human chain swinging for dear life. A little tense for a comedy but it works.As if there wasn't enough going on, the action makes it's way to Ebbetts Field and home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who make an appearance by way of the starting lineup up to bat against Skelton's guise as pitcher Gumbatz of the Battling Beavers. The players, if not the names are virtually unrecognizable today - Billy Herman, Arky Vaughn, Ducky Medwick and Dolph Camilli batting cleanup, while manager Leo Durocher also gets some screen time trading barbs with Skelton. The Beavers were reminiscent of the barnstorming House of David team, with players sporting chest length beards as their signature look.It's almost anti-climactic that the cops finally get their man considering the mad-cap pace that winds up on a ship docked at a Brooklyn pier. The henchman with the high pressure hose on the boat looked an awful lot like Anthony Quinn, but a quick glance at the uncredited cast list reveals it was Mike Mazurki, former pro boxer and wrestler who got an awful lot of parts as a heavy in films during the era.All in all, an entertaining romp that Red Skelton fans should certainly enjoy, with a cast that does a pretty good job of keeping up with the film's manic direction and slapstick timing. To use Red's own words, they all 'dood it' very well.

An enjoyable trifle, this is a fast-paced comedy in which Red Skelton is a radio performer pursued by the police as the suspect in a series of murders. His chauffeur is Rags Ragland, and they're accompanied by Red's fiancée, Ann Rutherford, and an inquiring report, Jean Rogers.What it lacks in sophistication it makes up for in energy. Three scenes in particular stand out. In one, the four hang from the top of an empty elevator shaft -- each by the other's heels -- and swing back and forth to reach an empty door. It's fairly tense for a comedy and the producers must have used professional acrobats.In another, Skelton poses as the pitcher for a bearded baseball team who happen to be playing the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1943, the Dodgers seemed ordained by the God of baseball never to win a series and were a national joke, referred to as "dem Bums." That was before they moved to Los Angeles and began wearing sandals, Hawaiian shirts, and shades on the playing field. Many, or maybe most, attempts at humor on the sports field flop as anticlimactic, but this one is kind of amusing. Leo Durocher and the rest of the team make an appearance.The last outstanding scene involves a farcical fight aboard a deserted ship and makes good use of nautical props.Zippy stuff. Better than some of Skelton's other movies, especially his later ones.

This is the third and funniest of Red Skelton's "Whistling" movies about the murderous misadventures of Wally Benton, actor, who plays most of the roles on radio's mystery show, "The Fox". It is a breakneck farce. Skelton and a horde of comedians race their ways through a tale about how Wally is mistaken for a suspected serial murderer when all he wants to do is go on his honeymoon with Anne Rutherford -- and who could blame him? S. Sylvan Simon, one of MGM's terrific B talents, directed. His specialty was high speed farce and he pulls things off here at a terrific pace. Simon is largely forgotten. He had just produced the movie version of BORN YESTERDAY when he died suddenly at age 41 in 1951. He directed Skelton in four of his movies and knew how to get a good comic performance out of that talented clown.Skelton had a successful career in the movies, simultaneously with his radio and television gigs from the late 1930s through the mid-50s. His movies are unfamiliar to most people because his contract called for extra fees to him when his movies played on television! Fortunately, they play fairly often now on Turner Classic movies. Do yourself a favor and see this one.