Wheeler & Woolsey Double Feature-Girl Crazy/Peach O'Reno

Their dialogue zings with Pre-Code sauciness, their barbed glee skewers social norms and their creativity includes daffy flights of song and dance. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, from their feature debut in 1929 until 1937, tickled fans with a steady skein of comedy madness. Peach-O-Reno has the duo as Reno divorce lawyers eager to spring paying customers from the holy bonds. At night, the law office becomes a casino, a gamble of a storyline that makes sense in the nonsensical W&W world. The Gershwin stage hit Girl Crazy becomes a screen expanse that, chucking most of George and Ira's fascinatin' rhythms, gives the boys room to unleash lunacy on a dude ranch. You'll laugh, pardner.

• comedy
• romance