Thank You Jeeves! - 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse characters.Arthur Treacher does a good job as Jeeves and David Niven is fine as Bertie Wooster- but aside from the funny opening drum sequences and some great one-liners- this movie feels like the screenwriter is trying to sandwich the Wodehouse characters into a whodunnit Thin Man style or something.Things really go south when they pick up a wayward sax player played by Willie Best-who shucks and jives his way thru most of the second half of the movie-although he is part of a funny sequence where he is playing the sax and Jeeves is dancing-has to be seen to be believed.This is more a curio-than a true adaptation of the Wodehouse books- it has enough funny stuff to sustain it's 53 minute run time- but it will be a disappointment to hardcore fans of the Wodehouse prose.The DVD has a good 24 minute biography on Wodehouse. C+
Review of Thank You, Jeeves!
