Heading for Heaven

Stuart Erwin is the third generation of his family to believe that a plot of 100 acres they own on the east side of town will be worth a lot of money. His wife, Glenda Farrell, is tired of poverty -- they live in a big house, well furnished, and have Irene Ryan as a live-in maid. Erwin's ship has come in, with an airline anxious to buy the property for an airport. Various swindlers, however, send him a fake telegram that the sale is off.

I'm not fond of Erwin's slow, dull-witted style of comedy, and this particularly lugubrious comedy wastes the talents of most of its cast -- George O'Hanlon offers some snap as Erwin's jittery, fast-talking brother-in-law whose efforts foul up everything.

Once again, Erwin's eventual triumph comes through no virtue or effort of his own, but simply because he is in the right place at the right time. I find such things to smack of pure contrivance and not amusing in the least.