14.8.10

hellzapoppin' (1941)


"Its a great script. Feel how much it weighs."
Ole and Chick (Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson) are trying to make a movie, but the director argues that to make a film they need a story. To this end he brings them to a young writer Harry Selby (Elisha Cook Jr.). He outlines a story to them where they have to help Jeff (Robert Paige) and Kitty (Jane Frazee) to set up a musical revue in her garden and make them realise they are in love with each other.
A screwball comedy, with the added element of a romance, that throws the whole works at the screen. Insert some musical numbers and you have the wackiest thing to come off Broadway in many a year. Though dated now, this is still and entertaining romp. If one joke falls flat, don't worry another one will be along in a second.

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