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Rise and Shine (1941)
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21 November 1941 (USA) moreTagline:
A COLLEGIATE CARNIVAL of ROMANCE, MELODY and MADNESS! (original print media ad - mostly caps)Plot:
Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
A lot of fun moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jack Oakie | ... | Boley Bolenciecwcz (pronounced Bolenkowitz) | |
| George Murphy | ... | Jimmy McGonagle | |
| Linda Darnell | ... | Louise Murray | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | Grandpa | |
| Milton Berle | ... | Seabiscuit | |
| Sheldon Leonard | ... | Menace | |
| Donald Meek | ... | Professor Philip Murray | |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Mame Bacon | |
| Raymond Walburn | ... | Colonel Bacon | |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Coach Graham | |
| Emma Dunn | ... | Mrs. Murray | |
| Charles Waldron | ... | President | |
| Mildred Gover | ... | Mrs. Robertson | |
| William Haade | ... | Butch | |
| Dick Rich | ... | Gogo |
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Evidently this started out based on Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times," but all that's left is the college football hero Bolenkowitz who needs a passing grade in order to play and thus mightily ponders the easiest question the prof can think of. Still, who cares? Everyone is entertaining, there's music, there's a gang of amusingly caricaturical bad guys, and it's all simple enough for a ten-year-old...