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| Supporting Ebert's rule that no good movie except The Wizard of Oz features a hot-air balloon. |
October 17, 1956
Historical Comedy*
DVD
C
I gave this a half hour because I kept thinking that it would, well, go somewhere. But after about six minutes of Edward R. Murrow doing the prologue, including clips from Méliès's A Trip to the Moon, we get to the actual story but even that takes another twenty minutes or so for set-up. I still might've stuck it out but the inclusion of buying a not-in-the-book balloon, when one is available for rent, just annoyed me. So I missed all the cameos that are supposed to be later and am just tagging the people I recognized in the first half hour. (No, that doesn't include Catinflas.)
S.J. Perelman co-wrote the screenplay. Michael Anderson directed.
*I guess this could also count as adventure, but I didn't see anything adventurous, or indeed anything that would justify "Todd-A.O.," in the first half hour.
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