Charles Butterworth
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Singer Susan Jackson wows audiences on the showboat Ellabella, while her father, Captain Jackson, sells them his "Wonder Elixer." Susan is courted by suave businessman Tony Sardell, but finds herself attracted to a dizzy trumpet player, Jeff Calhoun. Tony, who is really a big-city bootlegger, believes that Captain Jackson's snake-oil is actually premium moonshine, and plans to take over the Ellabella and its distillery. Susan and Jeff will need to...
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Jimmy Durante wants to wow the visiting Baron Munchausen by throwing him a big, bustling Tinseltown bash. Hollywood Party is the wild, wildly inconsistent but ever fun musical-novelty result, packed with kicky dance montages offering pre-Code chorines and Berkeley-like kaleidoscopic shots, spiked with a color cartoon insert from Walt Disney, muscled up with Schnarzan's lion-wrasslin', and thronged with notables, including Mickey Mouse, Ted Healy and...
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Criterion collection volume 457
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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention and the use of the town's only resuscitator--at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen, find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations.--