What, No Men!

  • El Brendel: a representative of a gasworks
  • Wini Shaw: saloon - owner
  • Phil Regan: policeman

What, No Men! is an American comedic color short film with musical interludes from 1934, which for the studio Warner Bros. was directed by Ralph dust and was premiered in 1935.

Action

The representative of a gas station and a police officer be kidnapped by mad scientists and taken to a place where an Indian tribe lives, consisting of only female members. The scientists want to explore there reactions and behavior of men.

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What, No Men! 1935 was nominated for the Oscar for best comedic short film, but was defeated in the election Kenneth Macgowans film La Cucaracha. The music of the songs wrote Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal wrote the lyrics. As a choreographer Bobby Connolly acted. The film was on May 20, 1935 ie after the Academy Awards, first performed. The movie was filmed in Technicolor, the sound is as usual for the time Mono. It lists three musical numbers:

  • Scientific Gentlemen presented by the mad scientists
  • My Journey 's End presented by policeman ( Phil Regan )
  • It Was a Dark and Stormy Night presented by the saloon owner ( Wini Shaw) and a choir

In Vitaphone archives the two film roles have on the film's inventory numbers was copied in 1704 and 1705., 2010, the film from Warner Home Video on the DVD Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts Collection was re-released. A dance number from the film recycles 1944 movie musical Movieland.

The article plays with a stereotypical Wild West romance - a saloon with a barmaid, poker game, a Cowgirl and wooden Wild West town - and also does not waive ethnic stereotypes of underdeveloped natives, which attributed classic attributes such as the tipi or the typical Indian canoe be. Nevertheless, the film comes across with a romance between white Americans and Native Ureinwohnerin about actually still prevailing limitations. In addition to the Wild West primitives of the film, he plays further with science fiction and especially retro - futuristic elements.

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