How to Vote

The principal speaker being too ill to attend, chairman. Frank Sheridan asks Robert Benchley to make a speak in his place. Sheridan spends the rest of the movie regretting it.

Robert Benchley had been giving this sort of confused lecture since he was a student at Harvard. Later, he did it on the Broadway stage, and transferred it to the screen as THE TREASURER'S REPORT in 1928. Now he was doing the same for MGM, and had already won an Oscar for HOW TO SLEEP.

My reaction may be due to the fact that I have just come from voting (New York has early voting), but this one is just as good -- if that's the right word for it -- as any of his lectures. In sum, you don't learn anything, but at least now you know it.