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Blondie in the Dough

1947

2/5

The intertwining plot threads of these movies keep getting more and more ridiculous.

After a disastrous golf outing with a grumpy president of a radio station who's horrible at golf, Dagwood gets fired again. To make money, he reads a book on radio engineering and uh... becomes a radio engineer, and Blondie starts selling cookies. She meets the eccentric president of a cookie company (played by Hugh Hubert, who previously played a different eccentric millionaire in another Blondie movie) without knowing his true identity, and he starts assisting her in starting her cookie business. After building a radio, Dagwood unknowingly broadcasts Blondie reading her marketing copy, and cuts into an ad for said president's company. Blondie gets, uh, "arrested," and taken to the radio station for questioning. Everybody eventually ends up at the radio station and everything is resolved when the whole truth comes out. Dagwood gets his job back, and Blondie is able to pay for the stove that Dagwood paid for on credit when he shouldn't have.

The movie is really a lot less interesting than it sounds.

This one has Alvin in it, which immediately makes it better than the ones that don't have him. Daisy is back, after being absent in the last one. I was hoping Dagwood would punch somebody near the end, when he storms into the room where Blondie is being questioned, thinking she's being tortured because Cookie had turned on the radio to some kind of detective drama. Unfortunately, he doesn't even swing at anyone. On the whole it's just another bland entry in the series.

At least the title makes sense, and is a good enough pun.