As I write this review, some of these 'Believe It or Not' episodes are making the rounds on Turner Classic Movies. Robert Ripley actually bows out of this one after introducing narrator Leo Donnelly, whose off-screen delivery is no more compelling than Ripley's himself. Of the few I've seen, this one offers the least amount of 'unbelievable' entries, as most are fairly mundane. There's a quick clip of a fat men's shop in New York City and one of a guy going around town picking up cigarette and cigar butts. Why?? A penny menu of about a dozen items in a New York eatery looked interesting, but for 1932, I guess it wasn't all that unusual. Ancient muskets handed down father to son in Tibet, a kiddie car made from cheap components, and a trio of ladies washing elephants and filing their toenails rounded out this program, making me once again wonder why Ripley's crew couldn't come up with a film short with oddities that were connected or related to each other in some manner. The randomness of the subjects presented was just too perplexing, but for once, the stories weren't all that unbelievable.
