This is a classic comedy at its best starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan. It is based on the 1940 play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman adapted by Everett Freeman. This is a story about a couple, Bill and Connie Fuller from New York City, moving into the country in Pennsylvania to fix up a dilapidated house and experience the pleasure (and lots of pain) in the process. The movie is written splendidly to suit the comedic skills of the great Jack Benny and superbly assisted by the beautiful Ann Sheridan. When Connie Fuller bought this house, she forgets little details like; the house has rotten floors, no bathroom, no water and no roof. The consolation is that George Washington once slept in that house. But later it turns out that Benedict Arnold lived there. Compounded to these problems, they have an uncooperative neighbor, Mr. Prescott (Charles Dingle) who is too eager to make the life of Bill Fuller very uncomfortable. In the midst of all this, Connie is accused by Bill of having an affair with local antique dealer Jeff Douglas (Harvey Stephens). This is an absolute screwball slapstick that everyone in the family enjoys it. You will laugh all the way to the end.
At the end even the rich uncle of Connie, Stanley's (Charles Coburn) little scheme to help the Fullers fails miserably. When everything looks bad, mysteriously the Fuller's dog finds an old letter in a boot that Kimber discovered while digging for a well. It is a letter from George Washington which is valuable enough to pay the mortgage on time and avert the foreclosure. The house is secure, beautiful and fully paid for just in time for the arrival of seventeen-year locusts.
Some of my favorite conversation in the movie is between Bill and Connie; in one scene, Bill Fuller asks; "Connie, why didn't you tell me about this letter from the bank?" Connie Fuller: "I didn't want to bother you, Bill." Then Bill Fuller: "Bother me? It's just a letter about foreclosure, that's all." In another scene; Connie Fuller: "Darling, what's the matter with your head." Bill Fuller: There's nothing the matter with my head, Connie. I'm holding it because it's the only head left in the family."
At the end even the rich uncle of Connie, Stanley's (Charles Coburn) little scheme to help the Fullers fails miserably. When everything looks bad, mysteriously the Fuller's dog finds an old letter in a boot that Kimber discovered while digging for a well. It is a letter from George Washington which is valuable enough to pay the mortgage on time and avert the foreclosure. The house is secure, beautiful and fully paid for just in time for the arrival of seventeen-year locusts.
Some of my favorite conversation in the movie is between Bill and Connie; in one scene, Bill Fuller asks; "Connie, why didn't you tell me about this letter from the bank?" Connie Fuller: "I didn't want to bother you, Bill." Then Bill Fuller: "Bother me? It's just a letter about foreclosure, that's all." In another scene; Connie Fuller: "Darling, what's the matter with your head." Bill Fuller: There's nothing the matter with my head, Connie. I'm holding it because it's the only head left in the family."
Reference: George Washington Slept Here – DVD
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