Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

utgard14 Sequel to Whistling in the Dark has Red Skelton once again playing radio star Wally "The Fox" Benton. This time he's headed to Georgia along with his fiancée Carol (Ann Rutherford). There they get mixed-up with a mystery involving Carol's old sorority sister and a treasure hunt. Red and Ann are both good fun in this delightful comedy. Solid support from George Bancroft, Guy Kibbee, Celia Travers, and Rags Ragland. Rags plays a dual role in an amusing follow-up to the last movie. In addition to adorable Ann Rutherford, Diana Lewis provides the pretty. It's not quite as good as Whistling in the Dark but it's still a very enjoyable comedy-mystery. Lots of funny gags. Also lots of awful fake Southern accents.

mark.waltz After capturing members of a murderous cult in "Whistling in the Dark", radio star Red Skelton heads down to the land of cotton (with his fiancée Ann Rutherford) where old times have definitely not been forgotten. There, he runs into the look-alike brother of his old rival (Rags Ragland) and the mystery of a missing local who had recently found a treasure chest full of old British coins (and worthless Confederate money). Guy Kibbee is the family patriarch, a sort of Tom O'Hara ("Gone With the Wind") in modern dress. His daughter (Celia Travers) and niece (Diana Lewis) are in a feud over the missing man (Mark Daniels), and all of a sudden, the escaped convict (also Ragland) shows up to add to the confusion.Some of the silliness goes overboard, giving recollection to a few recent Bob Hope films ("The Cat and the Canary" and "The Ghost Breakers") and many other comedy/mysteries of the era. But the conclusion (involving much of the cast) provides lots of slapstick as the group struggles to get out of a water filled fort, and continues as they fight the true villains. Then, the laughs come fast and furious. If you can get through the duller first half of the movie, this makes it all worth it.

bkoganbing Whistling in Dixie finds Red Skelton as radio detective the Fox and gal pal Ann Rutherford away in Georgia where Red's kind of faked an illness so he and Rutherford can get away and maybe get married down there. Rutherford has another agenda as well. Her old sorority sister Diana Lewis has sent her a pre-arranged signal that the sisters have in one needs help.Finding out that there is a five day waiting period in Georgia, the two of them get involved in a mystery where Lewis has witnessed a murder, but no body can be found. It all leads to some buried Confederate treasure in an old arsenal guarded by Civil War veteran Lucien Littlefield who's a might addled.Rags Ragland appears here as twins, both are convicts, one quite a bit nastier than the other. This film marked the farewell performance of George Bancroft as the sheriff who retired right after Whistling In Dixie was in the can. And of course unless you got Raymond Walburn, no film like this would be complete without Guy Kibbee as an expansive, mint julep drinking, son of the South colonel.With that kind of cast, this film can't miss being funny and the comedy is eternal.

Neil Doyle Although the slapstick is pretty heavy at times, especially toward the wild climactic scene that winds up the whole story, WHISTLING IN DIXIE has all the ingredients that made the Bob Hope films successful in the '40s, with Hope as the cowardly male lead being intimidated by gangster-type bullies.Here it's RED SKELTON who seems to have inherited Hope's gag writers, because all of the jokes could just as well have been hand-me-downs from Hope during his heyday. Skelton plays "The Fox", a radio sleuth who solves impossible crimes, and is lured to Georgia by his girlfriend when one of her friends is in a dire situation requiring the kind of help "The Fox" can offer.Lots of fun ensues when Skelton arrives at a spooky Georgian mansion, and some of the sight gags involving RAGS RAGLAND (in a twin role--one good, one bad), are quite funny although they tend to be overdone by the time the last reel is reached.ANN RUTHERFORD has a flair for light comedy that makes her a good mate for Skelton and the rest of the cast goes along with the gags and pratfalls in a professional manner. DIANA LEWIS lays on the Southern accent a little too thick, but this is probably for comedy effect. GEORGE BANCROFT, GUY KIBBEE and PETER WHITNEY have fun with good supporting roles.Summing up: Good fun, if you like these sort of slapstick murder mysteries.