Seeing Red (1939)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Roy Mack

Writer:

Cyrus Wood (written by)

Release Date:

26 August 1939 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

When he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked. |

Plot Keywords:

Boss | Nightclub | Waiter | Variety Show | Tap Dancing

Cast

Red Skelton	...	Red / doorman / coatroom attendant / waiter / emcee
A. Robins	...	Himself
The Merry Macs	...	Themselves
Harris & Shore	...	Themselves
Louis Da Pron	...	Himself
John Regan	...	Mr. Smith
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harris	...	Himself (as Harris & Shore)
Cherry MacKay	...	Herself (as The Merry Macs)
Joe McMichael	...	Himself (as The Merry Macs)
Judd McMichael	...	Himself (as The Merry Macs)
Ted McMichael	...	Himself (as The Merry Macs)
Shore	...	Herself (as Harris & Shore)

Runtime:

19 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Vitaphone

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Vitaphone Corporation, The

Soundtrack:

Corn Pickin'

This film preserves an important piece of entertainment history.

This is a great film for study by students of clowning, comedy, or vaudeville. It contains two of Red Skelton's classic routines demonstrating different ways people do things, including his wonderful pantomime of a woman applying make up and getting dressed. (Red also performs this pantomime in the 1944 film Bathing Beauty.) This movie has a great scene of A. Robins doing his act. Robins was famous in vaudeville as the Banana Man. He doesn't produce any bananas here, but his routine is full of many wonderful ideas that can serve as inspiration for today's entertainers. There are also three other vaudeville acts performed in this movie.