Bride Came C.O.D. The (1941)

Directed by William Keighley with a screenplay by Julius and Philip Epstein this average comedy features the second and last pairing of Warner Bros.’s stars James Cagney and Bette Davis; the other was Jimmy the Gent (1934). Davis plays an oil heiress on her way to eloping with Jack Carson‘s character when her father played by Eugene Pallette hires freight pilot Cagney to return her home unmarried agreeing to pay him by the pound (e.g. his daughter’s weight). Stuart Erwin plays a newspaper reporter looking for a story George Tobias plays Cagney’s sidekick and Edward Brophy plays a bill collector looking to foreclose on the pilot’s business. Cagney successfully “kidnaps” Davis flying her off in his plane but then has to land it in the desert. Harry Davenport plays an old man they find living in an abandoned town who later plays matchmaker in their inevitable “romance”. A delicious breakfast is cooked and a gold mine & Old West jail is utilized. William Frawley plays the Sheriff who arrives on the scene. Eventually Carson and Erwin show up at the “no longer deserted” town with a judge (Harry Holman) in tow so a wedding can take place (later its legality is questioned); there’s also a scuffle between Carson and Cagney. Pallette arrives before everything is predictably straightened out.

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