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Director:
Mark Sandrich
Writers:
Bert Kalmar (writer)
Edward Kaufman (writer)
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Release Date:
2 February 1934 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
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gloriously wacky stuff more (6 total)

Cast

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Bert Wheeler ... Andy Williams
Robert Woolsey ... Dr. Bob Dudley
Ruth Etting ... Ruth Etting
Thelma Todd ... Amelia Frisby
Dorothy Lee ... Daisy Maxwell
George Meeker ... Armand Beauchamp
Phyllis Barry ... Madame Irene
James P. Burtis ... Detective Sweeney
Matt Briggs ... Det. Epstein
Spencer Charters ... Clark
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Additional Details

Runtime:
68 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1936)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Miss Frisby: Two minds and a single thought.
Dr. Dudley: Yes, it's about all they can handle at one time.
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Movie Connections:
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Soundtrack:
Keep On Doing What You're Doing more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
gloriously wacky stuff, 7 November 2003
Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

Another little gem from the mad 30s boys of RKO as this frenetically paced oddity takes us from flavoured lipsticks to a mad Keystone-like car race in the space of just over an hour. Alongside cigar-chomping Woolsey and irritating little Wheeler we have Dorothy Lee (as per usual) and Thelma Todd playing the cutie romantic interest parts, and a short song right at the beginning from third-billed Ruth Etting (in a rather fetching hat).

Best sequences in this one - "Just Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'", really funny - the whole car race sequence, and the bevy of cuties with flavoured lipsticks ("we've got to guess what flavour" - oh, sure ...). I bet the set cleaners at RKO were knee-deep in bananas by the end of the shoot though :)

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