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Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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