Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

edwagreen Inventor Red Skelton, prone to accidents, creates a riot in this 1950 film. Gloria DeHaven, as his girl, is along for the ride.Walter Slezak, Jay C. Flippen and Edward Arnold are at their evil best. The last scene is similar to a Marks Brothers or 3 Stooges like films.I loved the part with the ambulance chasers and the attorneys. Was this ever so true to life!The film has familiar themes of slapstick comedy, accidents beyond belief, and a little brat of a child who causes mayhem with the police and traffic departments.The zany Red Skelton was wonderful at this type of film. The only thing is that you're familiar with these things and can easily predict what's coming next.

vincentlynch-moonoi It's often been said that MGM didn't "get" comedy. And with the scripts they would hand Red, again and again they proved that to be true. They could put really funny things in their forte -- musicals. But it was rare they really understood what makes a great comedy.For a change, here they got it right. I've always thought this to be the best of the Red Skelton comedy films, and my sister would have agreed when she was about 7 years old and we watched this on television. She was in absolute hysterics!But there's more to this film than slapstick (although that's what my sister remembers). Red always had the ability to play pathos, and he does here as the accident-prone inventor of unbreakable glass, which he tries to sell to the Yellow Cab Company, hoping that they will make unbreakable windshields. Of course, with Red being accident prone, his demonstration of his invention is a disaster. It's one mishap after another. But the bad guys are always at hand trying to take advantage. There's Edward Arnold (once a leading man himself), here reduced to a con-man shyster lawyer (but he's so good at it!). Then there's his accomplice -- Walter Slezak, as a crocked psychiatrist...and he leads Red into a fantasy sequence that's genuinely clever, original, and very funny. And then there's the hilarious finale at the Home Show. But what also works in this film is Red's sympathetic performance, silly little bits, and his romantic interest with Gloria DeHaven, who does quite nicely here. And then there's character actors James Gleason and Jay C. Flippen. Yes, MGM got it right this time, and gave Red one of his best roles. One for the DVD shelf! If you only buy one Red Skelton movie on DVD...this is the one!

drednm And The Yellow Cab Man is a good example. Fitfully funny comedy has Skelton playing his usual bumbler, this time an inventor and cab driver. Most of the funny bits here belong to Skelton, but Walter Slezak has a few nice bits too. Storyline has Skelton inventing bendable glass and a crew of crooks after him for the formula. Edward Arnold is the ringleader. Gloria DeHaven is a blah leading lady here. James Gleason, Paul Harvey, Polly Moran, Herbert Anderson (billed here as Guy and later on TV as Gus), Jay C. Flippen, Charles Lane, Jody Gilbert, Dewey Robinson, and Tiny Jones co-star. The IMDb lists Mae Clarke, but I never spotted her. Arnold is his blustery self, and Slezak was always a terrific comic villain. The finale is memorable, coming out just before Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train," but with similar use of a carousel (in this case a rotating house). Skelton did better on TV, but his film career of 20 years or so (not counting cameos) was not inconsiderable. Skelton worked mostly for MGM, certainly not a studio known for its comedies. He might have fared better at a "lesser" studio. The film is notable also for its plethora of ugly DeSoto taxi cabs!

magicalmouse I think that so many people only think of Red Skelton from TV and I think they forget that he did movies and in fact very funny movies. I scrounged around until I could find most of them on VHS but now I long for a good DVD set. The Yellow Cab Man has got to be my favorite, I laugh so hard at parts of it that I have to actually pause the film so that I can catch my breath. I usually don't care that much for physical comedy but he and Danny Kaye seem to be the masters of the art and their movies have me rolling on the floor every time. The plot in here is really not that great but it is just what is done with a simple idea -A nice guy that is totally accident prone trying to be a cab driver and show his new invention. Just wind Red up and let him loose.