pixrox1 Review of Bargain Day

Bargain Day (1931)

"Who's on first if Mom's on Watts Street . . . ?"

[5/10 · 8 February 2019]

. . . BARGAIN DAY asks more than once. If there's anything funnier than a bull in a china shop, it's a monkey in a house full of antiques, BARGAIN DAY discloses. As perhaps the weakest of the first 18 "Little Rascals" outings, Our Gang meanders around without any plot in sight. I've seen slaughterhouse migrants shoveling up the floor to make "Grab Bag" Sausage in a meat packing plant, and THAT'S a much neater sight than BARGAIN DAY. For the most part, this Little Rascals episode seems to be a Hodge-Podge of cutting room floor out-takes randomly spliced together by the Capuchin primate starring on screen. One silent film title card from the 1920s even makes it into the final cut of BARGAIN DAY, along with a lot of racial stereotyping. If you can imagine a one-handed chimp pecking at a typewriter for five minutes, you'll surely understand the "creative process" behind BARGAIN DAY.