currently showing on bbc 2 in the uk.
The tap dance sequence is simply cinematic gold. The joking banter in the dance off is as funny diologue as you could hope to find.
"you know all my routines"
"sure i did them first"
classic.
I loved that part. The back and forth between those two characters was so funny. Corny beyond belief but funny!
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Keep your eyes on the road!
Okay, if it makes you feel any better!
~ See No Evil, Hear No Evil
"you know all my routines"
"sure i did them first"
"I wish I was around for vaudeville, I would have been in the theater all day."
Thank God for the late, great Milton Berle, then. Circa 1948, "Uncle Miltie" helped bring vaudeville to early TV in the form we now call "the variety show." The longest-running of these was "The Ed Sullivan Show" (originally called "Toast of the Town"). And, of course, the best-for-last one was the deservedly classic "Carol Burnett Show," featuring the late, great Harvey Korman.
I feel privileged to have seen the latter two shows when they were prime-time weekly telecasts! And, with the advent of DVD, those of you much younger than me can now enjoy that same privilege.
Oh Yeah, Milton Berle
Ed Sullivan
"Talent shows" today are not the same,
and corny humor has changed so much.
Dance routine by Bob Hope and James Cagney superb !!
This is vaudeville at its best !!
Having already seen "Yankee Doodle Dandy", this movie makes a great matching bookend, to mash a phrase.
The Friars Club scene was excellent. I knew Bob Hope from his later years but knew he was a hoofer. He did himself proud in this movie.
I'd be curious to know just how much of the dance routine and banter was improvised.
I would be more intrested to know how much was left on the cutting room floor.
Thats like the story of the one and only pairing of Chaplin and Keaton over half was left on the cutting room floor because Keaton out shined Chaplin and it was a Chaplin movie.
There is more Gravy about you then the Grave. Scrooge.
Cagney was in his mid 50's when this film was made - but he had skill and energy of a man half his age.
Orson Wells was right - Jimmy Cagney was the greatest film actor of all time.
"Thank God For Darwin"
That was the highlight of the film. James Cagney and Bob Hope quipping and dancing together. I liked the way that Bob Hope gave his dancing a stiff awkward look. As befitted an ageing man. It made his dancing all the more clever for that.
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