Hellzapoppin’
Filmfest 2015
USA 1941
Original version with German subtitles
(Original: English)
Director: Henry C. Potter
Section: Open Air | Swing
Based on the hit Broadway play, this wacky, sight-gag filled romp stars Olsen and Johnson as a pair of actors whose attempt to stage a musical at a swanky estate is hampered when the show's producer begins to woo one of the venue's upscale residents, the female lead is mistaken for a wealthy femme fatale, and the whole production arouses the suspicion of a bumbling private eye.
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The Urban Dictionary's definition of 'hellzapoppin': "When something is so amazing, sense-making descriptors are simply inadequate to convey its excellence."
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee
Credits
Screenplay: Nat Perrin, Warren Wilson
Original Material: Nat Perrin
Director of Photography: Woody Bredell
Film Editor: Milton Carruth
Composer: Frank Skinner
Production Designer: Jack Otterson
Costume Design: Vera West
Sound: Bernard B. Brown
Producer: Glenn Tryon, Alex Gottlieb
Production Company: Mayfair Productions Inc., Universal Pictures International
Distributor: Universal Pictures International Germany GmbH
Director: Henry C. Potter
