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Hellzapoppin' (1941)
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26 December 1941 (USA)
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AT LAST IT'S ON THE SCREEN! Greater than the Stage Show!
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Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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You'll either love it or hate it.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ole Olsen | ... | Ole Olsen |
| Chic Johnson | ... | Chic Johnson |
| Martha Raye | ... | Betty Johnson |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Quimby |
| Jane Frazee | ... | Kitty Rand |
| Robert Paige | ... | Jeff Hunter |
| Mischa Auer | ... | Pepi |
| Richard Lane | ... | Director |
| Lewis Howard | ... | Woody Taylor |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Andrew Rand |
| Nella Walker | ... | Mrs. Rand |
| Shemp Howard | ... | Louie |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Harry Selby |
| Frank Darien | ... | Man calling for Mrs. Jones |
| Catherine Johnson | ... | Lena, Lady looking for Oscar |
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84 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Continuity: Betty picks up a rifle with a bayonet attached, but in the next shot it's a double-barreled shotgun.
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Spoofs The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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This movie pops up regularly on TV or at revue cinemas and I'm always surprised at how many youngsters are familiar with it.
Olsen and Johnson never had the following of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello but they were capable vaudeville comics who made a few movies, Hellzapoppin and Crazy House are the best remembered. Hellzapoppin is the a much sanitized film version of Nat Perrin's famous stage revue.
The jokes come fast and furious, some of them are very dated now and some were never very funny to begin with, but you don't have time to analyze, you're into the next before you know it. There are some familiar faces Misha Auer, who had a long career playing the same character (a Russian aristocrat with dubious credentials), the loud and brassy Martha Raye and the very funny Hugh Herbert with his "yoo-hoo's" and mumbled asides the audience. The special effects were innovative for their time.
As brief respites from the madness there are a number of variety acts, synchronized swimming, crazy diving, a few pleasant songs with the corny lyrics typical of the period and the fantastic dancing of the Harlem Congeroo Dancers which even today is greeted by gasps of amazement and applause.
Well you can't say the maker's of this movie weren't trying to entertain.