Directed by Preston Sturges
Written by Preston Sturges
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A film director feels there is too much suffering in the world to make another comedy. He's challenged that he doesn't know anything about suffering and soon is hitchhiking with only a dime. He meets a girl (played by the beautiful Veronica Lake) at a restaurant. She buys him food and tells him she wants to be an actress. Quickly he has to tell her that he is a film director and she is enthused to join him on his hitchhiking trip. He finds himself in trouble when his trip is over and he goes to hand out money to tramps to show how grateful he is toward their kindness to him. He gets mugged and put on a train. When the train stops and he comes to he assaults a train yard operator and ends up sentenced to jail for six years. He has amnesia, but his memory slowly comes back to him. He has no privileges such as making a phone call or writing a letter so he confesses to a murder-- his own.
A pretty wacky film that is about how the most downtrodden need to laugh the most. The end is particularly all over the place, but in a good way. Definitely worth checking out. It's not hilarious, but it has its moments and regardless it's a really good film.

8/10