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Ronald Colman stars in this madcap comedy about an eccentric genius named Beauregard Bottomley (Colman), whose intellect has often been more hindrance than help in securing steady employment. After a particularly dismissive interview with the scheming and vain soap industry magnate Burnbridge Waters(Vincent Price), Bottomley decides to get satisfaction by going on the company's sponsored game show with the intent of bankrupting Waters... Co-starring Celeste Holm, Barbara Britton, and Art Linkletter.

It was movie night around No-house again, and last night's was a sentimental beauty: Random Harvest starring Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, and the lovely Susan Peters. The movie is based on a book by James Hilton who also wrote the novels-turned-movies Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939, starring Garson) and Lost Horizon (1937, starring Colman). Set in England, the story involves an amnesiac, John Smith, who lost all memory in a French foxhole during WWI. Ronald Colman is spectacular in the role. His face is a veritable exemplar of emotional complexity, puzzlement, confusion, frustration and resignation. He is simply pathetic, and lovable,...