Biography: "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom |
A fifth-grade dropout and reform school "graduate," Harlem-born Maxie Rosenbloom began his boxing career at age 19. He went on to win 210 of his 289 professional bouts, and reigned as world champion from 1932 through 1934. It was Damon Runyon who,... more
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Cast: Jerry Lewis Dean Martin Frank Tashlin Anita Ekberg
Tags: Road Movie Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 95min
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish plot finds inveterate film fan Jerry making a cross-country journey to Tinseltown for the purpose of meeting his favorite...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
Cast: Lou Costello Mack Sennett Bud Abbott Henry Mancini
Tags: Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 79min
The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous outing Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple...
Cast: Jackie Coogan
Length: 72min
Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory theatrical release before selling the film to television. As it turned out, TV was the appropriate medium for this heavy-handed...
Cast: Eric Blore Kirby Grant "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom
Tags: Musical
Length: 60min
If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was Mack Sennett alumnus Eddie Cline. Kirby Grant, Lois Collier, Judy Clark and Edward Norris play Dick, Linda, Patty and Junior, young...
Cast: Henry King
Tags: Musical
Length: 65min
In this upbeat WW II musical, a popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight. Songs include: "Zip...
Cast: Paulette Goddard George Marshall Stanley Clements
Length: 95min
Chronic gambler Ellen Crane (Paulette Goddard) indulges in games of chance to compensate for the loss of her boyfriend during WW2. Heavily in debt to gambling czar Lonnie Burns (Fred Clark), Ellen promises to marry him to clear her financial slate,...
Length: 66min
My Son, the Hero was a rare comedy from the PRC studio mills-and rarer still, it was directed by melodrama specialist Edgar G. Ulmer. Roscoe Karns plays a third-rate fight manager misleadingly known as Big Time. Justifiably proud of his...
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Cast: Boris Karloff Peter Lorre Larry Parks Lionel Banks
Tags: Horror Comedy Horror Comedy
Length: 66min
In this silly but enjoyable rip-off of Arsenic and Old Lace, Boris Karloff plays an addlepated scientist who is experimenting with bringing the dead back to life. To do this, he has "killed" several travelling salesmen and placed them in suspended...
Tags: Musical
Length: 61min
Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the old one about a couple of young showbiz aspirants who are given their Big Break by a hotshot journalist. In this instance, the...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 63min
Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after another, much to the chagrin of his faithful girlfriend (Joan Woodbury) and loving mother (Mary Gordon). Finally, Kelly lands a...
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