Hal Roach Forgotten Comedies

Tired of life with her gangster boyfriend (a debuting Victor Mature), a moll (Joan Bennett) packs up to move in with her housemaid mom. It isn’t long before the boss’s rookie reporter son (John Hubbard) takes a shine to her...but, unfortunately, he’s also investigating her ex’s racket! "The Housekeeper’s Daughter" (1939) co-stars Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan.

An ad executive (Hubbard) and his pampered wife (Carole Landis) make the mistake of arguing about their lots in life in front of a mystic statue--and wind up swapping bodies as a result--in Roach’s cheeky adaptation of Thorne Smith’s "Turnabout" (1940). Mary Astor, Marjorie Maine, Menjou co-star.

A playboy (Hubbard) who feigned insanity to get out of marriage escapes the asylum--and goes on the lam with an aerialist (Landis) and her carny troupe--in "Road Show" (1941). Menjou, Charles Butterworth, Patsy Kelly co-star.

4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.