tadpole-596-918256 Review of How to Sleep

How to Sleep (1935)

I kept waiting for the sharks to appear, but all I saw were sheep!

[7/10 · 12 February 2013]

Maybe someone out there knows if the Benchley guy narrating this public service announcement spoof is the same dude who wrote the book upon which the movie JAWS is based? (If you look at the 1800s as one block of history, and the 1900s as another old-timer period, and factor in the time lag you often get between a book such as THE HOBBIT and its movie version, it implies that this probably is the SAME Benchley; I've never met anyone with that name, so how many screenwriter Benchleys COULD there have been scribbling away in the 1900s?) I'd like to compliment Benchley on his range; instead of having real-looking sharks chomping people in half or swallowing them whole (which would not seem very conducive to sleep), this 11-minute piece features innocent-looking cartoon sheep jumping over a fence (except for the one that caused the 94-sheep pile-up in Aisle 5!).