THE MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD. 20th Century Fox, 1943. Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Edmund Gwenn. Director: Sidney Lanfield.

   A small town lawyer is persuaded by his girl friend’s father to go to New York City and make his reputation, but unless he sheds his nice guy image he finds he won’t make a nickel. Once he starts evicting little old ladies into the street, business comes flooding in.

   And of course he loses his girl. There is not much else to say about this film (less than an hour running time), except to say that Jack Benny plays himself very well, and although not called Rochester in the movie, Eddie Anderson may be even better in his part.

— Reprinted from Movie.File.2, April 1988.