Road Show |  | Director: Hal Roach
Actor: Carole Landis,Patsy Kelly,Willie Best Adolphe Menjou
Studio: Alpha Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Silent
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 089218523396
EAN: 0089218523396
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 2006
Release Date: December 26, 2006
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Product Description
A rich playboy commits himself to a lunatic asylum to escape marrying a gold-digging beauty.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Totally Unique! July 9, 2007
Melinda Burnett (Atlanta)
A wonderful and eccentric film! It's funny! It's excellent! There's nothing else like it. If you want to see something like you've never seen before, you need to see this!
 One of the worst films I've seen in awhile April 7, 2007
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really thought that it was impossible for a film starring Adolphe Menjou to be this bad. Menjou was capable of ably playing a variety of characters from villain to tarnished hero, and he was also very able at playing comedy. However, even the talented Menjou cannot save this film. The plot is that young wealthy playboy Drogo Gaines (John Hubbard) gets cold feet on his wedding day, and decides to pretend he is insane. His jilted bride retaliates by having him committed. In the asylum, Gaines meets Carleton Carroway (Adolphe Menjou), and together the two escape and join a traveling carnival. In time, and through a series of comic misadventures, Gaines falls for Penguin Moore (Carole Landis), the beautiful leader of the carnival.
The problem is that besides Menjou, the players are just not that talented, and the jokes are just not that funny. Also, neither the overall plot nor the mismatched romance is very compelling. Cut down to 20 minutes or so, this might have been an OK 1940's comic short, but at 70 minutes it just seems to drag on forever. Hal Roach was capable of much funnier stuff. I would definitely pass on this one.
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