Like most comedies it might play better for a large assembled audience than in solitary home viewing but there isn't much going on here that is amusing.
Jack Benny lacks the convincing leading-man quality to carry this role. Certainly there's no "chemistry" between him and Sheridan.
Ya know... a funny contrarian casting for this would have been Edward G. Robinson. He could have done the exasperation of the homeowner bit very well. Jimmy Stewart would be a more conventional casting but I imagine he would have turned down a script like this.
Basically there aren't many funny lines in this. There are lots of lines that the music sound track sort of tries to plus and let us know were intended as humorous but it's all pretty weak.
The funniest part was the complication involving "Uncle Stan", that was worthy of a comedy of errors.
Jack Benny lacks the convincing leading-man quality to carry this role. Certainly there's no "chemistry" between him and Sheridan.
Ya know... a funny contrarian casting for this would have been Edward G. Robinson. He could have done the exasperation of the homeowner bit very well. Jimmy Stewart would be a more conventional casting but I imagine he would have turned down a script like this.
Basically there aren't many funny lines in this. There are lots of lines that the music sound track sort of tries to plus and let us know were intended as humorous but it's all pretty weak.
The funniest part was the complication involving "Uncle Stan", that was worthy of a comedy of errors.