Product Review

Real-life buddies and Warner Bros. colleagues Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson appeared in 11 films together – dramas and musicals alike – and scored their own starring vehicle as Two Guys from Milwaukee; a “Crown Prince and the Cabby” comedy where runaway royalty befriends a working-schmo taxi driver and the laughs flow as smoothly as a boilermaker goes down. A huge Lauren Bacall fan; Balkan prince Henry (Morgan) wants to meet the common folk; and incredulous hackie Buzz Williams (Carson) happily obliges; spiriting him off to his Brooklyn home turf. Meanwhile; the prince’s aide Count Oswald (S.Z. Sakall) holds off police and media “bloodhounds” hunting the prince; while blustery Buzz bumbles into one jealousy-driven mess after another when his impatient fianceé ( Joan Leslie) cozies up to his new royal best friend. Janis Paige; Rosemary DeCamp and Franklin Pangborn costar in this lightweight but engaging buggy ride as His Highness gets the lowdown on American democracy and – in a clever finale cameo – gets his fondest wish.