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Title: Great laughs, especially toward the end...
Review: This prize-winning play about a nutty family of eccentrics in the 1930's isn't done on stage much anymore (it is a nightmare to produce properly with typical community theater casts and budgets, and it's dated a lot), but the film version, nearly 70 years old now, is worth seeing. Just as good, but apparently not on DVD yet, is a stage version from about 15 years ago starring Jason Robards. I used to own the video tape of that one, and it was quite well done. However, it's hard to beat Jean Arthur and Jimmy Stewart and Lionel Barrymore, for Pete's sake. As an example of '30's-style comic playwriting and movie-making, you can take "You Can't Take it with You" with you, if you buy this.
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