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31 December 1949 (USA)
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Plot:
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge...
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Snake Oil
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Corruption
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Medicine Show
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Dog
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Party
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Awards:
Won Golden Globe.
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Costume Design in the Digital Age in Hollywood
(From Alternative Film Guide. 16 April 2009, 5:06 PM, PDT)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 16 April 2009, 5:06 PM, PDT)
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How can we have Gypsy song without Gypsy chorus?
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Danny Kaye | ... | Georgi |
 | Walter Slezak | ... | Yakov |
| Barbara Bates | ... | Leza |
 | Elsa Lanchester | ... | Maria |
 | Gene Lockhart | ... | The Mayor |
| Alan Hale | ... | Kovatch |
| Walter Catlett | ... | Colonel Castine |
 | Rhys Williams | ... | Inspector General |
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Happy Times (USA) (working title)
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102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Nikolai Gogol's play, "The Inspector General" opened in St. Petersburg, Russia. in April 1836.
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Continuity: When Yakov first reads the note from Leza we can see it says "They are trying to kill you. Don't go near the barn." Later, when the woodchopper reads it he says "Don't go near the barn. They are trying to kill you."
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Referenced in "Hogan's Heroes: The Collector General (#3.27)" (1968)
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Brodny
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Hysterical. Danny Kaye is a comedy genius.
The Gypsy song was the best part of the film. (Zummm-shtok-shtok-hahaha) This is worth a look for this scene alone. It was fun watching the crowd get into it. I'd guess that scene was mostly ad-libbed. He clearly was in control. I bought the DVD (public domain) just for that scene.
The supporting cast did a great job too. Slezak nearly stole all of his scenes and Hale Sr. was perfect in support. And the costume designer deserved at least a nomination for the Oscar.
You can't take this one seriously. But then Danny Kaye lived to entertain. And few did it better.