Believe It or Not #2 (1930)

Director:

Murray Roth

Writer:

Wallace Sullivan (script)

Release Date:

July 1930 (USA)

Genre:

Short

Plot:

The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail...

Plot Keywords:

Mail | Arrest | Star Spangled Banner | Singing Quartet | Judge

Cast

Robert L. Ripley

...

Himself (as Robert Ripley)

Runtime:

9 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Vitaphone

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Vitaphone Production Reel #1038.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Believe It or Not #4 (1930)

First Two in Series

Believe It or Not #2 (1930)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Robert L. Ripley gets pulled into court to testify that what he says is actually true. Inside the fake courtroom we hear Ripley questioned about various stories including a man in India who held his hands over his head for ten years and the story of a man eating plant. This second short doesn't work as well as the first since we're not shown too much but instead we're just hearing the stories.

Believe It or Not #1 (1930)

*** (out of 4)

Robert L. Ripley shows off various strange items from a man with eight inch horns coming out of his head to a woman who can read eight words a second. This is the first I've seen from this Warner series and it was pretty interesting, although Ripley's not the best host a film could have.