Hellzapoppin' (film)
- Chic Johnson Chic Johnson
- Martha Raye: Betty Johnson
- Hugh Herbert: Quimby ( private )
- Jane Frazee: Kitty edge
- Robert Paige: Jeff Hunter
- Mischa Auer: Pepi
- Richard Lane: Director
- Lewis Howard: Woody Taylor
- Clarence Kolb: Mr. Rand
- Nella Walker: Mrs. edge
- Shemp Howard: Louie ( projectionist )
- Elisha Cook: Harry Selby
- Frank Darien: Bote (seeks Mrs. Jones)
- Catherine Johnson: Lena (seeks Oscar)
- Gus Schilling: Conductor
In hell, the devil 's going on! is a turbulent film adaptation of the musical Hellzapoppin ' from the year 1941. The film is very popular in the swing dance scene, because it contains one of the oldest ( and fastest ) footage of swing dance.
Action
The focus is on verbal wit, visual gags and bizarre nonsense. The plot is rather convoluted and are mainly the framework for everything that belongs in a Hollywood Revue film of the 40s: romantic love songs, burlesque musical numbers, dance and acrobatics, Water Ballet ( Olive Hatch Water Ballet) and large dance scenes, including a fast-paced music and Lindy Hop dance number of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers ( as " Harlem Congeroo Dancers" with Frankie Manning ) and one with Martha Raye and Dean Collins. In addition, the duo Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart) as well as (uncredited) interact with the trumpeter Rex Stewart.
Right in the input sequence, each logic is resolved through a dialogue between film and "reality" in the projection room of a movie theater. Everything starts as a film within a film, but it turns out as a movie. Movie recording is canceled because the director is not satisfied with the script, he wants a love story. So Ole, Chic and the director go through various film sets ( in a will to Citizen Kane by Orson Welles played ) to the young screenwriter Harry Selby.
The director explained the new story: "It's a film about a film about a Broadway play " and displays them also the same in a film clip. The story begins in a villa in Long Iceland. There should be listed on a Fete a revue. Jeff Hunter is the writer, director and scene painter. Kitty border, the millionaire's daughter, wants to fulfill her dream actresses in it. Kitty and Jeff stuck in an unspoken love, but Kitty to marry according to the will of the parents Woody Taylor, Jeff's best friend. Jeff wants to leave their kitty.
Ole and Chic help as prop to make the Revue on the legs. To weiterzuhelfen her boyfriend Jeff at Kitty, they decide to make kitty sick with Woody. Woody believes that Kitty and Pepi have a relationship, and wants to give up kitty. But as Woody tells Ole and Chic what he has observed, they believe, " protect " Jeff before having to Kitty, by sabotaging the Revue. This is the rather boring Revue but to a great hilarity, and the specially traveled Broadway producer buys the Revue.
The film ends back in the film studio, where Ole, Chic and the director are appalled by the new script. Harry Selby defends himself: "I have seen something times in the cinema and I have a good laugh about it."
Background
The musical Hellzapoppin ran on Broadway from September 22 1938 to December 17, 1941 and 1404 performances was with one of the most successful productions of the time. The book came from Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson and was constantly replenished during the term with current references. Music and lyrics delivered Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias.
The song Pig Foot Pete by Gene de Paul (music) and Don Raye ( text ) in 1943 for an Oscar " Best Song " nominated and assigned it Hellzapoppin. In truth, he was not there before, but came from the Abbott and Costello film Keep ' Em Flying ( 1941).
Reviews
- " ... Visual and verbal gags, lots of corny jokes. A bomb for friends of higher nonsense. "
- Protestant movie watchers: Parody on trying to parody a Broadway hit play by a film. Fun for those who sometimes do not even want to see more than just a laugh bomb.
DVD releases
- 2007 in Great Britain SECOND SIGHT, No.: 2NDVD3113
- 2009 in Germany in Ufa