Believe It or Not #3

Believe It or Not #3 (1930)

*** (out of 4)

Robert Ripley's third film in the series once again shows various strange things that some might not even believe even though all the evidence is right there on the screen. This time out we get to see a waiter carry fourteen coffee cups and plates in one hand, a church in Nebraska that's made of hay, a baseball team made up of nine brothers, a small Tennessee town that is still living two-hundred years behind current times and many other strange stories. If you enjoy this series then this one here offers up plenty of funny stories and some things that are hard to believe are really happening. None of this stuff is too shocking today with all the news media we have as it seems we can find out anything about anyone. Most of the stuff presented here wouldn't get a brief mention on the news today but the film remains charming as a history lesson of how this stuff was presented back in 1931. The strangest scene in the movie takes place in Mississippi where two black ladies are introduced with one being 138-years-old and the mother of the other woman who is 108-years-old.

From 1930 to 1932, Robert Ripley starred in eleven shorts for Warner Brothers. Each one was very similar...consisting of Ripley doing some drawings and showing some film footage as he tells tales of interesting people and places...some of which are actually true!

This one consists of a story about a guy who balances on one leg, a group of people who are pot-heads, a church made of hay, a baseball team consisting of brothers, some mountain folks who are self-reliant and who are talked about in a patronizing manner, a woman CLAIMING to be 128, odd cemetery markers as well as a four-legged duck.

For the most part, these weird and wild things and people aren't particularly weird nor wild. One of the more underwhelming installments of the franchise.