Hellzapoppin'

1941

Action / Comedy / Music / Musical

13
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 3877 3.9K

slapstick chaos musical revue slapstick comedy cult film

Director

H.C. Potter Photo
H.C. Potter

Top cast

Ethelreda Leopold Photo
Ethelreda Leopold as Blonde Woman at Skeet Range
George Chandler Photo
George Chandler as Movie Cameraman
Frank Austin Photo
Frank Austin as Chauffeur
Ole Olsen Photo
Ole Olsen as Ole Olsen
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Outrageous and relentlessly hilarious musical comedy that still works pretty well.

A pair of stage comedians (Olsen and Johnson), try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way. A musical is being filmed in a mansion that is the background for the development of two love triangles. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up a musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. The projectionist (shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame) attempts to run the film while arguing with his girlfriend and the stars have to step out of it and remonstrate with him. And Mischa Auer plays a real Russian nobleman who is pretending to be a fake Russian nobleman. A woman with a potted lant wanders through the movie looking for Mr Jones and a mad private eye (Hugh Herbert) keeps adressing the audience. At last it's on the screen! Greater than the Stage Show! Best dance scenes and wildest cinematic tricks for its time!. Blazing, blasting, exploding, fun !. Just The Type Of Entertainment For The Blues !. At last it's on the Screen!. Bigger, better, Funnier, crazier with those two howling madcaps Olsen and Johnson who will have you roaring with glee from start to finish!. The stage's zaniest show...becomes the slap-happiest film ever made!. What show rocked Broadway for 4 solid years? What show is now on the screen...Funnier, wilder, Crazier than ever? Starring the Kings of the Screwball...!.Amusing and entertaining Olsen and Johnson picture with enough gags for give several movies. It has a lot of funny material and unfortunately intrusive songs. Wisecracks and the incomparable Olsen an Johnson carry the movie. We are faced with a delirious and crazy musical comedy, adapted from Broadaway's hit "Anything Goes", starring the same actors as the film adaptation: Ole Olsen and Choc Johnson. Hollywood's craziest comedy this side of the Marx Brothers , only originally less madcap than the long-running stage show on which it was based. Many funny sequences , this is the most sustained bit of insanity, full of crazy gags , antics and amusement , being now deemed a satiric masterpiece ,and one of the biggest hits. Although it suffers from staginess and musical comedy plotting but gives the zany duo Olsen and Johnson, along with Martha Raye and Mischa Auer, plenty of comic elaboration. It revived the dormant cinema careers of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson.There are some of the craziest moments in an unique Hollywood experience, being directed in freewheeling fashion by H. C. Potter. Although few of his films are really distinguished, Potter was a very successful stage director, directing three top Broadway plays which eventually became highly successful films. In 1927 he founded and was a director for the Hampton Players, a Long Island (NY) repertory group. He later worked as a director on Broadway, then moved to Hollywood in 1935. At first he freelanced, then went under contract at MGM (1939-40), RKO (1947-48) and United Artists (1948). Also directed for Disney and Goldwyn. Returned to the theatre in the 1950s. He directed a number of films, the following being worth highlighting: The Miniver story, The Time of Your Life, Mr Lucky, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, A likely story, The Shopworn Angel, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, You Gotta Stay Happy, The cowboy and the lady, The Farmer's Daughter . Rating: 7/10. Better than average.
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Reviewed by chaswe-28402 7 / 10

It got better

20 minutes into this I'd concluded it was definitely wacky, but not enjoyable, and I was feeling strongly disinclined ever to watch it again. I thought maybe it had inspired Woody Allen's "Purple Rose", because sometimes the characters would jump out of the screen. I struggled on. After about 60 minutes it seemed to get better. But perhaps I was only getting used to it. There were some really good dance performances, though, and some fine parodies of Busby Berkeley. It grew generally more impressive and enjoyable. It will nevertheless be some time before I bother to watch it again.

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