Film Details

Two Pre-Code rarities (in 35mm prints from the Library of Congress) for one price! Safe in Hell is one of the most jaw-dropping of Pre-Code movies. A New Orleans prostitute who thinks she has killed a man flees to a steamy Caribbean island. There she tries to reform, but the place is populated almost entirely men—criminals and other fugitives, bullies, and lecherous low-lifes—who won’t leave her alone. Diplomaniacs, on the other hand, is an anarchic, absurdist political comedy in the mold of Million Dollar Legs and Duck Soup. The film stars the once hugely popular, now mostly forgotten comedy duo of (Bert) Wheeler and (Robert) Woolsey, whose many 1930s films probably saved RKO Pictures from bankruptcy. Here they play struggling barbers on an Indian reservation who are sent to be the Oopadoop nation's emissaries at an international peace conference in Geneva. Despite rampant political incorrectness, Diplomaniacs is probably Wheeler and Woolsey’s funniest movie.