Look Who's Laughing

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and sidekick Charlie McCarthy play themselves in a film which drafted some of its cast from the world of radio. On their way to a vacation spot Bergen's plane has engine trouble and is forced to land in Wistful Vista, home to 1940s radio personalities Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan) and Molly (Marian Jordan). Fibber is involved with a local business dispute: he hopes to interest the Horton Aircraft in a nearby airstrip, and the wealthy Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve is bidding on the strip on behalf of a friend. Edgar and Charlie become Fibber's guests, and the ventriloquist offers to persuade Hilary, a friend, to buy the airstrip. Charlie, disenchanted with Wistful Vista, sends his partner a telegram which lures him out of town on false pretenses. While he's away Gildersleeve acquires the airstrip for his friend Sam Cudahy (Charles Walton) by nefarious means. Since Fibber, in disgrace for having blown the deal, has resigned from the Chamber of Commerce and has heard his house is in foreclosure, it's up to Edgar and Charlie to save their friend. A vehicle for Bergen and McCarthy, it shines only when Charlie is on camera, but it was a huge success, becoming RKO's biggest box office hit of the year. (texte officiel du distributeur)