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House of Errors
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Directed by Bernard B. Ray.
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun. A couple of munitions racketeers (John Holland and Guy Kingsford) concoct a scheme to drive down the price of the weapon but despite an ability to stumble over their own feet, the heroes manage not only to foil the plot but also reunite their reporter friend with the inventor's lovely daughter, Marian Marsh. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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House of Errors may not be high cinematic art but it is also not the blot on his career that some of Harry Langdon's biographers have suggested. Langdon, in fact, is the entire show, his high-pitched cartoon voice perfectly suited to this story of wartime mayhem, which has much in common with comic strips. Sadly, the little film proved the final screen appearance of blond Marian Marsh, an almost star of the 1930s who usually deserved better than she got. Here Miss Marsh heads a cast of well-known Poverty Row regulars that includes silent screen femme fatale Betty Blythe and second bananas Monty Collins and Vernon Dent. Bernard B. Ray both produced and directed, making the most out of PRC's ramshackle standing sets. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
 

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