Two of the great Joe E. Brown's features for producer David Loew are showcased in "The Joe E. Brown Double Feature." "Riding on Air" (1937) is a pleasing Brown vehicle in which he plays a small-town reporter who gets himself, and the whole town, taken tothe cleaners by a flim-flam man. "When's Your Birthday?" (1937) is an offbeat farce about a banker's obsession with astrology. When he calls off his marriage because its date doesn't align with the stars, he becomes a busboy, where his gift for astrologycatches the attention of high-stakes gamblers.
Two of the great Joe E. Brown's features for producer David Loew are showcased in "The Joe E. Brown Double Feature." "Riding on Air" (1937) is a pleasing Brown vehicle in which he plays a small-town reporter who gets himself, and the whole town, taken tothe cleaners by a flim-flam man. "When's Your Birthday?" (1937) is an offbeat farce about a banker's obsession with astrology. When he calls off his marriage because its date doesn't align with the stars, he becomes a busboy, where his gift for astrologycatches the attention of high-stakes gamblers.
