The Movie:
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) / PENNY SERENADE (1941) is a double-feature of two Cary Grant classics, released by Marengo Films:

HIS GIRL FRIDAY is Howard Hawks' classic screwball comedy, and one of Cary Grant's best films. It's a remake of the play "The Front Page" with Grant as editor of a Chicago newspaper and Rosalind Russell as his star reporter and ex-wife. When Russell announces that she is going to quit the newspaper business and marry Ralph Bellamy, Grant attempts to get her to write one last story -- and win her back. The script for this film is amazingly witty, with dialog being spewed out faster than you can take it all in. This is a great movie.

PENNY SERENADE is a passable tearjerker, told through flashbacks, showing the marriage of Grant and Irene Dunne from its happy beginnings to its eventual disintegration because of various tragedies. This is fair...Read the entire review

No matter how many times you watch him, Bob Hope is always Bob Hope. But this is a good thing! The well intentioned, bumbling misfit, which Bob Hope has played in almost every movie he has ever made, is a timeless, cinematic industry unto itself. And if you like Hope, the double feature DVD of My Favorite Brunette and Road To Bali is a must have!

My Favorite Brunette teams up Hope with Dorothy Lamour in their 5th film together at the time. Hope plays a baby photographer who aspires to be a private detective just like his neighbor in the office next door (a detective played by Alan Ladd). Of course, Hope really doesn't seem to have the stuff it takes but when Carlotta Montay (Lamour) mistakes him for a private detective and wants to hire him to find her missing uncle, Hope jumps at the opportunity to live out his dream. Hope soon finds himself in over his head as the bad guys, played by ...Read the entire review

The Movie:
MEET JOHN DOE (1941) / A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932) is a double-feature of two of Gary Cooper's most famous movies, released by Marengo Films:

MEET JOHN DOE is Frank Capra's darkly comic satire. Recently-fired journalist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) writes, as her final story, a fabricated piece about "John Doe" -- a man threatening to commit suicide because of all of the injustices of the world. When the story becomes a sensation, the paper rehires Ann and convinces a homeless former baseball pitcher (Gary Cooper) to impersonate John Doe, beginning a new political movement and possibly bringing real changes to the working class.

In A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Cooper plays Lt. Frederic Henry, an American serving in the Italian ambulance corps during World War I who falls in love with Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), a beautiful British nurse. Despite obstacles placed...Read the entire review