I don't even know if my fellow Pliss-kids ever give classic film the time of day - but this movie was legitimately funny and, I have to say, likely bizarre enough even for you guys to dig it.
Basically this movie is about an angel that is tasked to come down to destroy the earth by blowing his heavenly trumpet at midnight, but since Jack Benny is kind of one of those clueless doofus types, mayhem ensues. Fallen angel debacles. It's kind of like if It's a Wonderful Life followed Terrence Oddbody fully - or Wings of Desire without the overt beauty and Columbo cameos - or like City of Angels without the melodrama and scrunchy Meg Ryan nose - but then add a some hokey 1940's "wit" and tons of morbid doomsday jokes. And a lot of strange 40's surrealism: angel orchestras stretching to the horizon, heavenly elevators, fallen angel walls of shame, falling in a giant coffee mug -
And the whole film ends in a "it was all a dream" cliche... incredible.
I guess Jack Benny used to poke fun at this film, and apparently was a huge flop when it came out, but it's definitely aged a whole lot better than a lot of "classic" film.
7 every time a bell rings out of 10 angel wings.
~KS
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