April 6 movie: The Bride Came C.O.D. Extremely silly movie starring Bette Davis as an heiress running away to get married, and James Cagney as a private pilot hired by her father to prevent the marriage by kidnapping her and taking her back home to Texas. The plane runs out of gas and they crash-land outside a ghost town, and then it's basically the same as It Happened One Night. With many scenes of people falling ass-first into cactus patches.
That description makes the movie sound terrible, and it was. I still enjoyed it. I was thrilled to see it because I had tried to record it ages ago, and then someone died (I think maybe Ingmar Bergman) and TCM pre-empted all that day's programming, so I never got to see it until now. It was silly good fun. Davis gets the best line: "You're not even good enough for the cuss words I know!"
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