5/10
Must everything be a contest?
4 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A silly B comedy that's not up there with the classic screwballs of the 1930's even though many of the characters here are. Preston Foster and Sally Eilers work for Cecil Kellaway's advertising agency, and their main client, a cereal company, is losing profits. So what do they do? Come up with a contest that after 30 weeks will pay the winner $200,000. They better sell a lot of corny flakes, and not those screwball characters that keep interrupting Foster's drawings.

One of the big distractions is dizzy dancing dame Lorraine Krueger who is determined to steal Foster from Eilers, chasing Foster up to the country with her dumb lug brother Guinn Williams where he's trying to work in peace, leading to a kidnapping subplot. William Brisbane plays Kennedy's dimwitted son who will inherit the company much to papa's chagrin.

Those seeking out where Waldo is will have to ask where's Dagwood instead as Arthur Lake plays a minor character named Waldo (Foster's cousin) but would go onto play to greater fame Dagwood in the same year's "Blondie" and 12 years of others in the series. The film is amusing for the wacky characters and some funny lines, but it's pretty standard sitcom style stuff.
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