One night when Alice can't sleep, she starts quizzing Joe about their finances, including Joe's life insurance. When Joe replies that the insurance policy on him is worth $20,000, Alice casually remarks that Joe is worth more to her dead than alive. This is probably the wrong thing to say to your spouse in the middle of the night.
Leave it to the McDoakeses to take that hoary sitcom chestnut of "I think my spouse is trying to kill me" -- which had already been done on "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" -- and put their own spin on it as if it was the freshest of comedy premises. George O'Hanlon has a field day acting out male paranoia, right to the end of the movie. And Jane Frazee, who had come off as a very cold Mrs. McDoakes up to this point, plays the "erstwhile killer" material perfectly, and delivers an actually-touching speech to Joe near movie's end. A surprisingly funny late entry.
Our rating: (C) 2012, Steve Bailey.
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