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| Rhubarb | 
 enlarge | Director: Arthur Lubin
Actors: Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, Rhubarb The Cat
Studio: Legend Films
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $5.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 12424
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 94
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DLF00310D
UPC: 844503000316
EAN: 0844503000316
ASIN: B0019UGYBE
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW sealed shipped daily. International Shipping via Air Mail.
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Product Description
A charming and fast-paced screwball comedy starring screen legend Ray Milland and enchanting beauty Jan Sterling. Trouble follows when an eccentric millionaire bequeaths his fortune - and his baseball team - to his pet cat! Now the team's publicist (Milland) must convince the players that Rhubarb is the key to their success, at the same time evading gangsters and avoiding the wrath of his lovely - and allergic - fiance! Rhubarb is a hilarious comedy classic in the style of Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday.
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Delightful and forgotten screwball comedy May 22, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
If you've never seen this 1951 screwball comedy, you have missed a real gem. A cat that can fight and beat dogs, an eccentric baseball team owner who dies and leaves the team to the cat (Rhubarb), the cat's guardian (Ray Milland) whose fiancee is allergic to cats, a group of gangsters who believe Rhubarb is hurting their earnings in the field of betting (the team begins to win after they believe Rhubarb is good luck), and the dead owner's relations who have been left penniless by Rhubarb usurping them in their inheritance all mix together to make great fun for cat lovers and baseball lovers alike. Nobody remembers this one very much because it is rarely televised and also because it was made by Paramount, a studio that tends to neglect its many classic films. In fact, the expression that the Joker utters in the 1989 Batman film : "Never rub another man's Rhubarb" refers to this film, although almost everyone assumed a more unsavory meaning for the expression. The baseball team in this film starts to turn their luck around when one batter pets (rubs) Rhubarb before a game. It really is a great family movie, but not many people at all have seen this one and thus few understand what the Joker was talking about.
This film is finally coming to DVD July 1. That is the good news. The bad news is that there will be no extras included.
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