The Big Broadcast of 1938 03/29/26

Gee, now what year was this film released?  Paramount’s comic radio variety extravaganza is enlivened by big-scale W.C. Fields comedy scenes, crazy antics from Martha Raye and the film debut of Bob Hope. Not to mention the science fiction premise that holds it all together: a trans-Atlantic race between giant high-speed ocean liners. Mitchell Leisen gives the show a glossy art-deco look, while Hope and Shirley Ross make movie history with the song Thanks for the Memory. We’ve always loved it, even with some klunky musical interludes. On Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
03/29/26