A few years ago at B-Fest, in the middle of the night we were weirdly confronted with the Mickey Rooney picture Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary. GalaxyJane and I exchanged puzzled looks, but both opined it would at least probably only run about an hour.
Sadly, we were incorrect. This was the longest chapter of the long-running Andy Hardy series, clocking in at a numbing hour and forty minutes. We had forgotten, you see, that the Andy Hardy movies were not B-movie programmers, but (as hard as it is to remember now) A-pictures. It was the Andy Hardy series that literally made Mickey Rooney the world’s biggest movie star for several years in the ’40s.
We don’t know who picked the film, but surely we would have been better off with any of the potentially lame but short B-movie comedy entries featuring haunted house shenanigans. They certainly would have seemed more B-Festy.
