Watch It  On DVD: TBD | On Blu-ray: TBD  The Great Gildersleeve
This was the first of five profitable RKO Radio quickies based
on the popular radio series The Great Gildersleeve. Harold
Peary, a normally slender actor who went through an arduous
fattening-up process before shooting started, repeats his radio
role as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, pompous water commissioner
of the town of Springfield. While trying to wend his way through
the complicated political system in his tiny metropolis, "Gildy"
endeavors to escape the various matrimonial traps set by
wealthy...more