Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.
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Jack Baxley
- Night Club Janitor
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Symona Boniface
- Diner
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Harry Bowen
- Guitar Player
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Baldwin Cooke
- Waiter
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Kay Deslys
- Chorus Girl
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Bill Elliott
- Diner
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Estelle Etterre
- Woman who leaves early
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Charlie Hall
- Waiter
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Fay Holderness
- Chorus girl
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Sydney Jarvis
- Night Club Doorman
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Carl M. Leviness
- Diner
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Jerry Mandy
- Night Club Manager
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William J. O'Brien
- Bald Waiter
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Ellinor Vanderveer
- Chorus Girl
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- QuizAccording to a surviving call sheet, 60 extras were used in the ballroom scene.
- Colonne sonoreSmile When the Raindrops Fall
(uncredited)
Written by Alice Keating Howlett and Will Livernash
Performed by Charley Chase and band at the nightclub
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In the silent and early sound era, Charley Chase (in reality, 'Charles Parrott') was en exceptionally busy comedian and director--having made about 300 shorts. Despite his very prolific body of work, few today know who he was--partly because his films are rarely seen on TV (aside from a few on Turner Classic Movies lately) and because his films were wildly inconsistent--particularly the sound ones. Sometimes, they rivaled Laurel and Hardy's in quality and other times they are just dreadful (such as SOMETHING SIMPLE or THUNDERING TENORS). While WHAT A BOZO is not one of the dreadful ones, it isn't a whole lot better--offering only a few laughs.
Charley plays a band leader who takes a young lady for granted. It's obvious that she loves him but dumb Charley has his sights set impossibly high on a snooty society dame. During Charley's hopeless quest to catch the rich lady, the other does her best to make Charley look like some kind of nut. Unfortunately, most of this just isn't very funny.
In addition, watching young Black kids singing "Old Black Joe" in one scene is probably something I didn't need to see (it in no way enhanced the film). While I am far from politically correct and hate this form of censorship, I could definitely understand and respect people who would find this scene objectionable or in poor taste.
Not a great film by any standard and understandably one of Charley's poorest efforts that I've yet seen. I have seen about fifty of his films and this is close to as many as now exist--as many as 200 have simply disintegrated due to the passage of time and its effect on nitrate film.
Charley plays a band leader who takes a young lady for granted. It's obvious that she loves him but dumb Charley has his sights set impossibly high on a snooty society dame. During Charley's hopeless quest to catch the rich lady, the other does her best to make Charley look like some kind of nut. Unfortunately, most of this just isn't very funny.
In addition, watching young Black kids singing "Old Black Joe" in one scene is probably something I didn't need to see (it in no way enhanced the film). While I am far from politically correct and hate this form of censorship, I could definitely understand and respect people who would find this scene objectionable or in poor taste.
Not a great film by any standard and understandably one of Charley's poorest efforts that I've yet seen. I have seen about fifty of his films and this is close to as many as now exist--as many as 200 have simply disintegrated due to the passage of time and its effect on nitrate film.
- planktonrules
- 7 dic 2007
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By what name was What a Bozo! (1931) officially released in Canada in English?
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