Product Description: Digitally Remastered - A mysterious expolsion at Doc Robbin's lab suggests murder and all evidence points to Dan (played by Whitford Kane). The gang however led by Curly (Larry Olsen), suspect otherwise and set out to prove Dan's innocence. Produced by Hal Roach (Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, Little Rascals) and filmed in Brillant Cinecolor
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Rating: - Hal Roach Drops A Bomb
A few years after M-G-M dropped the "Our Gang" series, producer Hal Roach made a half-hearted attempt to revive the format, with a new cast. "Who Killed Doc Robbin" is the second (and last) of these lame efforts, and one star is just about one too many for this piece of junk. If you are expecting to see anything even vaguely resembling "Our Gang", forget it. In "Who Killed Doc Robbin", a woefully untalented cast muddles its way through one of the most boring screenplays ever concocted, with the whole thing filmed in poor-quality color. Although all the child actors are quite awful, Dale Belding and Ardda Lynnwood are the most annoying (however, it's pretty close, with honorable mention to Larry Olsen). None of the charm or sense of spontaneity which marked "Our Gang" is present in this crummy little potboiler, which literally defies description. It doesn't appear to be a comedy, because it isn't funny at all. ... Read More
Rating: - Little rascals meet the Bowrey Boys
With the popularity of the Bowery Boys "B" movies, it is no wonder that HAL ROACH would want to bring his kids comedies back to the screen. He must have been serious about it, he shot it in CINECOLOR!
The problem here is that while the old Little Rascals/Our Gang comedies had real kids being themselves in humorous situations, this movie had kid actors trying to do a Bowery Boys type of movie in a spooky house. To make things worse, the kid actors are more annoying that Mickey Gubitosi of the later MGM Our Gang shorts!
And some of the humor is at the expense of the kids, in particular the racial humor of the two black boys called "DIS" and "DAT". In a 1920's film one could pass it off as a different time, but by the 1950's racial tensions were building and a call for equality was on the way. Some of the laughs include seeing one black boy turn white when he is scared, seeing only the ... Read More
Rating: - If you think all kids are cute, you haven't seen this film
The End. Could these be the most wonderful, joyous two words in the English language? They will be if you suffer through Who Killed Doc Robbin? You might very well call up all your friends, babbling "The End" and giggling hysterically when you are finally freed from the painful affliction of this film. It is hard to believe that Hal Roach, the man who gave us Our Gang (aka The Little Rascals), could go on to assemble the most annoying group of children the screen has ever seen. How an otherwise decent actor like George Zucco got caught up in this mess is a total mystery to me. And they actually bothered to shoot this 1948 dud in color - I guess they had to spend some money on something, since they obviously didn't spend a dime on the script.
In many ways, this movie is a blatant, incredibly misconceived knock-off of Our Gang; this is the kind of thing that should have made Hal Roach froth at ... Read More
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