I recently heard of this film through another essay and watched it. My mind was blown, not just because of how hilarious the comedy is, but also, as you showed, how influential it was. I grew up watching the Looney Tunes (and a few years ago I restarted watching them and went "so this is where I got my sense of humour from!"), and watching this felt like finding the foundation of Looney Tunes' humour, basically a live action full-length Looney Tunes skit. It instantly became one of my favourite comedies of all time (Edited for spelling)
Apparently the Shemp Howard projection booth scenes were a later addition by the studio. Potter wanted it to seem as there was a genuine war between the film and the projectionist at any theatre it played. Even more radical.
I learned about this film from one of my Dads WWII letters from Italy to his wife back in the States. It was being shown to the troops to build morale. He mentioned how zany it was. I, of course, had to find a copy. He was right; it is totally nuts!
Fun video! Just the right blend of information, trivia and letting the movie scenes speak for themselves. You have a real feel for visuals and clean graphic presentation. Can hardly wait to see some of your other shiny offerings. Thanks for your deep dive and easy-to-view video from a new subscriber!
This is the only film to be accidentally nominated for an Oscar, on the 1942 ballot it was nominated for best original song for “pig foot Pete”, even though that song wasn’t from Hellzapoppin, it’s from keep ‘em flying, written by the same guys and also starring Martha raye
The Bowery Boys comedy, High Society, was mistakenly nominated for Best Story in 1956. The nomination was supposed to go the Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly movie of the same name.
"Hellzapoppin'" is the pride of my DVD collection and a gift from a close friend. As someone who cherishes meta humor, this goes beyond Bob and Bing's "Road" pictures garnished with "Marx Brothers", "Abbott and Costello vaudeville brashness along with the Lindy Hoppers and comedienne Martha Raye showing some sex appeal. I love this flick. BTW, John P. Fulton is the greatest SPFX artist who ever lived.
It's true! Nothing quite hits like Hellzapoppin' does.
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Just found out your channel. It's really interesting what you're trying to bring to UA-cam. We don't have many channels here that do video essays on classic films. I'm subscribed. I would love if you did a video about Busby Berkeley
One of my favorite movies. I love the songs in it. "Watch the Birdie" is my favorite. I tried watching the sequel film and it definetly isn't as good, which is really sad. I wish they had more chances into making another movie as good and crazy as this one
The Irish comedy writer Spike Milligan wrote about this film in his autobiographies when he was in Italy in WW2, when they were inspired by this in their Army stage shows.
Have seen this back when it was on British TV about every year, usually shortly before Christmas. It fits well with the kind of TV comedy back then: look up Spike Milligan, his radio show 'The Goon Show', his always-mutating stage show 'The Bed-Sitting Room' (also a rarely-seen movie) and TV series 'There's a Lot of it About', and the 'Q' series, 'Q6', 'Q7' etc. often anarchic, even making fun of the need to have and end or punchline being spoofed, considered mildly racist today, it's usually actually spoofing things considered normal at the time of his serving in WWII, when he nearly died, nearly went mad and he suffered from bipolar periods all his life post-WWII.
Saw that film at the age of 11 and wondered like "well, that's somewhat different to other movies I've seen" - almost 50 years later and considering myself as a lifelong movie-nerd/junkie, I still wonder the very same way... let it popp!
Thanks. Decades ago I recall seeing a film that had something like 10 straight minutes of zanyness before getting to the actual 'story'. The shot of the white horse with the tic-tac-toe on its hindquarter and the reference to Rosebud has now given me the name of that movie... ...or maybe not, as it might have even been a knock-off from later on. Question...did this duo open up their other films in such a manner?
I'd confidently say it must have been Hellzapoppin' you saw. BUT there is a possibility that it could have been an episode of 'Fireball Fun-For-All', a short lived and similarly off-the-wall variety series Olsen & Johnson carried for a season. Unfortunately, most of it seems to be lost media at the moment, but I would think it likely that some Hellzapoppin' bits and style could have been cleverly recycled there.
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This is one of the craziest comedies I ever seen
I recently heard of this film through another essay and watched it. My mind was blown, not just because of how hilarious the comedy is, but also, as you showed, how influential it was. I grew up watching the Looney Tunes (and a few years ago I restarted watching them and went "so this is where I got my sense of humour from!"), and watching this felt like finding the foundation of Looney Tunes' humour, basically a live action full-length Looney Tunes skit. It instantly became one of my favourite comedies of all time
(Edited for spelling)
Apparently the Shemp Howard projection booth scenes were a later addition by the studio. Potter wanted it to seem as there was a genuine war between the film and the projectionist at any theatre it played. Even more radical.
Thanks for the show. So much comedic energy. Loved it!
I learned about this film from one of my Dads WWII letters from Italy to his wife back in the States. It was being shown to the troops to build morale. He mentioned how zany it was. I, of course, had to find a copy. He was right; it is totally nuts!
Fun video! Just the right blend of information, trivia and letting the movie scenes speak for themselves.
You have a real feel for visuals and clean graphic presentation. Can hardly wait to see some of your other shiny offerings.
Thanks for your deep dive and easy-to-view video from a new subscriber!
This is the only film to be accidentally nominated for an Oscar, on the 1942 ballot it was nominated for best original song for “pig foot Pete”, even though that song wasn’t from Hellzapoppin, it’s from keep ‘em flying, written by the same guys and also starring Martha raye
The Bowery Boys comedy, High Society, was mistakenly nominated for Best Story in 1956. The nomination was supposed to go the Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly movie of the same name.
"Hellzapoppin'" is the pride of my DVD collection and a gift from a close friend. As someone who cherishes meta humor, this goes beyond Bob and Bing's "Road" pictures garnished with "Marx Brothers", "Abbott and Costello vaudeville brashness along with the Lindy Hoppers and comedienne Martha Raye showing some sex appeal. I love this flick. BTW, John P. Fulton is the greatest SPFX artist who ever lived.
It's true! Nothing quite hits like Hellzapoppin' does.
Just found out your channel. It's really interesting what you're trying to bring to UA-cam. We don't have many channels here that do video essays on classic films. I'm subscribed. I would love if you did a video about Busby Berkeley
Welcome aboard!
One of my favorite movies. I love the songs in it. "Watch the Birdie" is my favorite. I tried watching the sequel film and it definetly isn't as good, which is really sad. I wish they had more chances into making another movie as good and crazy as this one
You will enjoy this.
The Irish comedy writer Spike Milligan wrote about this film in his autobiographies when he was in Italy in WW2, when they were inspired by this in their Army stage shows.
Nice. I wish you’ll also review”Merton of the Movies” 1947. A great forgotten Red Skeleton movie.
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Have seen this back when it was on British TV about every year, usually shortly before Christmas.
It fits well with the kind of TV comedy back then: look up Spike Milligan, his radio show 'The Goon Show', his always-mutating stage show 'The Bed-Sitting Room' (also a rarely-seen movie) and TV series 'There's a Lot of it About', and the 'Q' series, 'Q6', 'Q7' etc. often anarchic, even making fun of the need to have and end or punchline being spoofed, considered mildly racist today, it's usually actually spoofing things considered normal at the time of his serving in WWII, when he nearly died, nearly went mad and he suffered from bipolar periods all his life post-WWII.
Saw that film at the age of 11 and wondered like "well, that's somewhat different to other movies I've seen" - almost 50 years later and considering myself as a lifelong movie-nerd/junkie, I still wonder the very same way...
let it popp!
Thanks. Decades ago I recall seeing a film that had something like 10 straight minutes of zanyness before getting to the actual 'story'. The shot of the white horse with the tic-tac-toe on its hindquarter and the reference to Rosebud has now given me the name of that movie...
...or maybe not, as it might have even been a knock-off from later on. Question...did this duo open up their other films in such a manner?
I'd confidently say it must have been Hellzapoppin' you saw. BUT there is a possibility that it could have been an episode of 'Fireball Fun-For-All', a short lived and similarly off-the-wall variety series Olsen & Johnson carried for a season.
Unfortunately, most of it seems to be lost media at the moment, but I would think it likely that some Hellzapoppin' bits and style could have been cleverly recycled there.
This was written by Pat Perrin who had written several Marx brothers films in the early 1930s so he was perfect for olson and Johnsons control chaos
When u thought u were going to l0ose4 the war