tavm Review of Clown Princes

Clown Princes (1939)

Clown Princes was another funny enough M-G-M entry in the Our Gang series

[7/10 · 13 January 2015]

This M-G-M comedy short, Clown Princes, is the one hundred seventy-ninth entry in the "Our Gang" series and the ninety-first talkie. Porky's family is threatened with eviction so Spanky raises money by putting on a circus complete with various domesticated animals disguised as wild ones and Alfalfa singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze". Using elements from previous entry Barnum & Ringling, Inc. and having Alf perform something Spanky had done with previous members in Mike Fright, this was another pleasingly amusing entry in the M-G-M-produced-only series along with a welcome return of Clarence Wilson-from Shrimps for a Day and Little Sinner-as the mean landlord. So on that note, Clown Princes is recommended. P.S. This was the first in the M-G-M series to have a credit for editor who in this case was Roy Brickner, brother of former Our Gang director Gordon Douglas (Brickner).