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WESTERN FIELDS

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

My Little Chickadee (1940)

with W.C. Fields and Mae West.

This is a wild west satire and has all the Field's tricks although less physical humor than we are used to.

I had not seen Mae West before. She flaunts the sexual stuff in a way that freaked people out. It is very well done. And she had to get by the censors (The Hays Office)

What is really good about this DVD is that all the lines are crystal clear. Both Fields and West are slow talkers; he for the gift of gab and she for the innuendo.

It is pretty good.

Not great.

West doesn't have many films where she is not a spectacle and so they picked this one so we could see her in her post prime but not yet molded over.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.