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It's in the Bag!: Directed by Richard Wallace. With Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix. The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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- Comedy
- Richard Wallace
- 1945-04-21
It's in the Bag! is a 1945 comedy film featuring Fred Allen in his only starring film role. The film was released by United Artists at a time when Allen was at the peak of his fame as one of the most popular radio comedians. The film has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive. [citation needed] [2] The film is loosely based on the ...
- George R. Batcheller Jr., Walter Batchelor, Jack H. Skirball
- Richard Wallace
By "the last one" Allen meant 1945's It's in the Bag, Allen's one and only starring role in a motion picture. It was one of several film adaptations of Ilf & Petrov's 1928 comic novel The Twelve Chairs , while also improbably an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink patchwork of vaudevillian routines and contemporary comedians doing their "bits."
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It's in the Bag! is a 1945 comedy film featuring Fred Allen in his only starring film role. The film was released by United Artists at a time when Allen was at the peak of his fame as one of the most popular radio comedians. The film has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive. The film is loosely based on the comic novel The Twelve Chairs of Ilf and Petrov, later filmed by Mel ...
Fred F. Trumble Floogle, a flea-circus proprietor, learns that a wealthy relative has died and Fred is the heir to a fortune. He moves his family, wife Eve, 12-year-old son Homer and 18-year-old daughter Marion into a high-cost penthouse apartment. Later, they learn from a crooked attorney, Jefferson T. Pike, that the huge fortune has been ...
A loose adaptation of the novel The Twelve Chairs, Allen inherits money and goes into debt before he actually receives the payment. He later finds out that his relative left him five chairs instead of the cash. Allen promptly sells them only… more. A whirlwind of jokes of all types and sizes.
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