Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Harry Einstein
- Parkyakarkus
- (as Parkyakarkus)
Helen Lowell
- Hattie 'Ma' Carson
- (as Helene Lowell)
Jack La Rue
- Mr. Thrust
- (as Jack LaRue)
Dona Drake
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- (as Rita Rio)
Sid Fields
- Chorley Lennox
- (as Sidney H. Fields)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to contemporary articles in the New York Times and Variety, Clarence Budington Kelland wrote his story as a vehicle for Harold Lloyd. The novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from May 25 to June 29, 1935.
- GoofsWhen Eddie listens to the correspondence course record on his portable phonograph, there's a record in the compartment in the cover. It shows part of the sleeve for Columbia "New Process" records, dating to about 1926. In a tighter shot in the same scene, the record is gone.
- Quotes
Eddie Pink: Dead men don't hiccup.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
- SoundtracksFirst You Have Me High (Then You Have Me Low)
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Lew Brown
Sung by Ethel Merman and danced by chorus including The Goldwyn Girls
Also sung by Eddie Cantor a cappella
Featured review
Shades of Busby
Several numbers in the film are worth a look just because of the clear influence of Busby Berkeley. The numbers show sophistication and modernist sensibility very different from the tone and style of the rest of the material, and very Berkelesque. In the "High and Low" number,for example, filmed mostly in closeups, Merman's white skin is strongly silhouetted against her very black costume, which itself blends into the black background. Its a chiaroscuro effect highly reminiscent of Winnie Shaw's "Lullaby of Broadway" number in Gold Diggers of 1933.
Later, in "Shake Me Off With Rhythm", the shiny dance floor reflects the dancers so completely that a reflection begins to dance on its own, itself a reminder of Bojangles by Fred Astaire in Swingtime, which was released in the same year. At another point, dancers intertwine so that their one's arm become the other's legs and it becomes difficult to distinguish them, their intertwined bodies still reflected by the shiny floor in a very modernist composition. It all feels like Busby, off center, inventive, playful. Worth a look.
Later, in "Shake Me Off With Rhythm", the shiny dance floor reflects the dancers so completely that a reflection begins to dance on its own, itself a reminder of Bojangles by Fred Astaire in Swingtime, which was released in the same year. At another point, dancers intertwine so that their one's arm become the other's legs and it becomes difficult to distinguish them, their intertwined bodies still reflected by the shiny floor in a very modernist composition. It all feels like Busby, off center, inventive, playful. Worth a look.
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- Jan 13, 2014
Details
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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