Wise Girls (MOD)

Wise Girls (MOD)Father and son comedy veterans J. C. Nugent (Remote Control) and Elliott Nugent (The Male Animal) adapt and costar in this screen adaptation of their hit stage farce, Kempy. The Bence women are rapidly outspending retired Dad Bence's (J. C. Nugent) remaining savings. Dad's financial hopes are pinned on marrying middle daughter Kate (Norma Lee) off to enamored multimillionaire Duke Merrill (Roland Young), but the couple had a falling out two years

Although he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes

he comes to realize what many flyers know: up in the heavens

they have what it takes to bring the sky-high scoundrels back to earth

the actor who makes a delightful specialty of playing motormouthed manipulators and flimflammers (including Hildy Johnson in Broadway's original The Front Page and slick publicity man "Space" Hanlon in Jean Harlow's Bombshell)

"I'm not just a kid brother anymore

an outrageous

The film culminates in a shocking twist

And a rising body count

conspiracy nut Emmitt (voiced by Billy West

That leads to a diagnosis of madcap comedy involving feigned illness

yet never neglects war's unsparing personal costs

modest little funny-bone tickler