Fun on a Weekend (1947)

Eddie Bracken wakes up after sleeping on the beach because he was broke, to find Priscilla Lane in the same situation. They spend their last 15 cents to buy a cup of coffee and two doughuts at Joe's Diner (our old friend Allen Jenkins), and decide that with his great ideas and her brass they can make it in the big time just on their wits alone. They pawn their clothes and swap them for bathing suits and robes, and head to a real estate office to start. With the inimitable Arthur Treacher thrown into the mix as B. O. Moffitt, the real estate agent, anything can happen. ("Call me Benjamin, or Benjamin O., but not B. O.") Along the way they pick up a Great Dane pooch to complicate matters. Watching the starving Bracken wrestling the dog for a steak bone is hilarious. And incidentally, the dog gets the last laugh - literally.




Priscilla Lane


Allen Jenkins