ON OUR MERRY WAY - DVD

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Plot: A rediscoverd gem from the Golden Age of Cinema, ON OUR MERRY (aka A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN) is a delectable, lighthearted comedy interweaving four different narratives, featuring Hollywood's brightest stars.; James Stewart and Henry Fonda are at the peak of their form as a pair of impooverished swing band musicians who attempt to chang thier luck by rigging a talent contest (judged by Harry James and featuring Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer as a hip contestant). Based on a story by John O'Hara, the sequence was directed by John Huston, who was forced to leave the project to honor a prior commitment and whose directorial shoes were then filled by Geaorge Stevens (neither of whom receives on-screen credit).; ; Dorothy Lamour costars as an aspiring actress who, in one unforgettable sequence, dons Polynesian sarong in a hilarious spoof of exotic Hollywood musicals. Years before they would be teamed on TV's 'My THree Sons,' Fred Macmurray and William Demarest are traveling con men who fall into the snare of a maniacal ten-year-old named 'Sniffles' Dugan. All three comical misadventures are woven together by an aspiring reporter (Burgess Meredith) who struggles to write a human interest piece to satify the professional ambitions of his young bride (Paulette Goddard).; ; This Kino on Video edition was digitally mastered from the origiinal 35mm nitrate negative.
• Cast: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Harry James, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Hugh Herbert, Charles D. Brown, Henry Hull, Eduardo Ciannelli, Betty Caldwell, John Qualen, Dorothy Ford, Eilene Janssen, Frank Moran, Nana Bryant, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, David Whorf, Walter Baldwin, Joe Devlin, Charles Laughton, Peggy Norman, Broderick O'Farrell, Almira Sessions, Bobby Barber, Eddie Borden, Paul A. Burns, Jack Cheatham, Chester Clute, Gino Corrado, George Davis, Helen Dickson, Tom Fadden, Greta Granstedt, Daniel Haight, Al Hill, Charles Anthony Hughes, Paul Hurst, Leo Kaye, Ann Kunde, George Lloyd, Thomas Martin, Damian O'Flynn, Anne O'Neal, Joe Ploski, Lucien Prival, Suzanne Ridgeway, Dewey Robinson, Jeffrey Sayre, Dick Scott, Bert Stevens, Hal Taggart, Max Wagner, Leslie Fenton, King Vidor, John Huston, George Stevens, Laurence Stallings, Lou Breslow, Arch Oboler, John O'Hara
• Director: Leslie Fenton
• Runtime: 1:48
• Company: Kino Video
• Media Format: Movie