High Time

Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's "high time" he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a freshman, Crosby is forced to endure the anachronistic initiation stunts dreamed up by his fraternity buddies, and at one point is required to dress up as Scarlett O'Hara ...more

High Time is never going to top anyone's list of the best musicals (or comedies or Bing Crosby films) ever made, but it's an engaging and modest little film. It also has an innocence and naïveté to it that is rather refreshing -- and quite rare for a Blake Edwards picture. Still, it's admittedly slight, the kind of "high concept" film that too often coasts along on its concept without ever expanding on it. The humor is often dated and frequently forced, and the big comic highlight -- Bing ...more