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Jack Benny is probably America best-loved and funniest comedians. During his 20 plus years on radio, he delighted audiences with extremely funny situation comedies and a strong supporting cast. Jack also starred or co-starred in several movies. The Nostalgia Merchant is proud to make these movies available on DVD.

Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also enroute to the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary, returning from a personal appearance tour in South America.Their cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred reduces Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail, and the feud is on again. Love Thy Neighbor was produced to capitalize on ther famous radio feud between the two radio comedians. They were actually buddies in real life.

Starring: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Verree Teasdale, Virginia Dale,The Merry Macs
1940 • BW • 82 Minutes

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Buck Benny Rides Again

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

Starring: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Andy Devine, Phil Harris, Dennis Day. 1940 • BW • 82 Minutes

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It's In The Bag

It’s In The Bag stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning that he's inherited $12 million from his uncle, Fred also discovers that the money has been stuffed in one of thirteen chairs that he's sold at auction. There is a brief misadventure with Jack Benny an impromptu barbershop quartet session with Fred, Rudy Vallee, Don Ameche and Victor Moore, and a confrontation with the dreaded William Bendix mob (Bendix isn't really a gangster, he simply inherited the gang from his mother.) You’ll also enjoy Jerry Colonna as Fred's live-in psychiatrist. Starring: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore, Rudy Vallee, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley and Jerry Colona.

1945 • BW • 87 Minutes

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