Follow Thru (1930)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Directors:

Lloyd Corrigan
Laurence Schwab

Writers:

Lloyd Corrigan (writer)
Frank Mandel (play)

Release Date:

27 September 1930 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs...

Plot Keywords:

Two Strip Technicolor | Beautiful Woman | Based On Play

Cast

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers	...	Jerry Downes
Nancy Carroll	...	Lora Moore
Zelma O'Neal	...	Angie Howard
Jack Haley	...	Jack Martin
Eugene Pallette	...	J.C. Effingham
Thelma Todd	...	Mrs. Van Horn
Claude King	...	Mac Moore
Kathryn Givney	...	Mrs. Bascomb
Margaret Lee	...	Babs Bascomb
Don Tomkins	...	Dinty Moore
Albert Gran	...	Martin Bascomb
George Olsen	...	Himself

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (2-strip Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (MovieTone)

Filming Locations:

Bel-Air Country Club - 10768 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Boom microphone shadow on the wall behind Lona (lower right) when she is comforting Angie.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Broadway: The American Musical" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Button Up Your Overcoat

Tame early talkie with practically no plot, just charm

Buddy Rogers and Nancy Carroll can't act or sing well here, but they don't for a minute let that fact stand in their way. They get by on their facial beauty, their charm and their obvious on screen chemistry. Jack Haley and Eugene Pallette are serviceable as the comic support. Who steals the show but a singing comedienne named Zelma O'Neal, playing Carroll's friend, Angie. Her facial expressions and timing are the whole show and she emerges as the only reason to see this slow moving, plotless relic of the early talkie era.

The early two-strip Technicolor is used unimaginatively (reds and greens predominate). Only five songs are retained from the original Broadway musical from which this is adapted. One became a standard (BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT). The other four are A PEACH OF A PAIR, THEN I'LL HAVE TIME FOR YOU, I WANT TO BE BAD and IT MUST BE YOU.

Don Tomkins who plays a character named after a famous restaurateur (Dinty Moore) has a certain oddball charm and is facially quite striking. In fact all the young men and women in the cast are easy on the eyes.

Unfortunately, there is hardly any plot. It all takes place at a golfing country club. All the girls want Rogers and Carroll also sets her cap for him. She of course gets him after a little rivalry is resolved. That's it, folks. Hardly enough reason to sit through the 93 minutes it take to tell this non-tale. The direction is lethargic and in the end, only the charm of the leads and the talented O'Neal remain in the memory banks.

Seek this out only if you are a fan of early talkies, early Technicolor or the leads.