Cinematheque at the Chazen: Joe Dante Selects

It's a Gift (1934, 35mm, 73 min.; directed by Norman Z. McLeod) features the legendary W. C. Fields as Harold Bissonette, a New Jersey grocery store owner, henpecked husband, and downtrodden dad who uses an inheritance to buy an orange grove in California. In Hold That Ghost (USA, 1941, 35mm, 86 min.; directed by Arthur Lubin), Abbott and Costello inherit a haunted house in "one of the Abbott & Costello pictures I like the most... a lot of great gags." (Joe Dante)