Tonight's Movie: Mississippi (1935) - A Universal Blu-ray Review

MISSISSIPPI (1935), starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields, has just been released on Blu-ray by Universal.This is a film I've long wanted to see due to its leading ladies, favorites Joan Bennett and Gail Patrick.Bing plays Tom Grayson, a Quaker-raised Philadelphian now living in the South.Tom is newly engaged to Elvira (Patrick), but when her former suitor shows up at the engagement party and challenges Tom to a duel for "stealing" his sweetheart, Tom thinks it's absurd and refuses.Elvira is insulted Tom won't defend her "honor" and immediately breaks the engagement, to the joy of her little sister Lucy (Bennett), a schoolgirl who secretly loves Tom herself.Tom takes a job on a showboat run by Commodore Jackson (Fields), where Tom ironically becomes known as "Colonel Steele, the Singing Killer."Eventually, Tom reunites with Lucy, but even the loyal Lucy is shocked by Tom's new identity -- or maybe she's just bothered by his unfortunate-looking mustache?This is quite a short film,…