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Usually, the extinct “Colored Movies” as they were called in the 1920s to the 1940s, are high in historical value, but shameful on entertainment.
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This film is one of the best of the genre and will leave you feeling great good-if you give it a chance.
This is a first cousin to another Sunless film called “Killer Diller” (also on DVD) which was essentially a filmed vaudeville demonstrate with a threadbare station that didn’t pick itself too seriously. This is made by the same people, and also stars the Queen of Sunless Comedy-Jackie Moms Mabley, Dusty “Launch the Door Richard” Fletcher, and the Lucky Millinder Orchestra.
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The film starts of with a very tiresome intro about Dusty Fletcher sneaking into Moms’ boardinghouse with a man in a monkey suit. But don’t discontinuance the DVD here or you’ll really miss some profitable stuff! We then pick up into the “memoir” of Moms trying to place her boardinghouse of vaudeville performers from an gross landlord. Sounds corny? Yes, but Moms’ magnetic personality and safe bond with the other performers makes it work. How to achieve the house with all this talent? Well DUH….(enjoy in the blanks, folks) .
The talent assembled is outstanding! Johnny Lee (Calhoun from Amos & Andy) is aboard as a stuttering repo man. “Crip” Heard, a dancer with only one leg and one arm who occasionally appeared at the Apollo Theater with Moms Mabley at the time, astounds and inspires. The Berry Brothers do some funny dancing, as does the suited Stump and Stumpy (who were said to have inspired Dean and Jerry and also appear uncredited in “Stormy Weather) . Lewis and White turn what would have been a hackneyed vaudeville jokebook routine (with a gag about a horse on drugs that would have never made it into a mainstream “white” movie at the time) into a thing to explore, with their inspired delivery and jaw-dropping dance routine. Moms herself goes into her distinguished monologue act and makes us smile with some added dancing.
The Lucky Milliner band does some graceful songs and even does some precursors to Rock and roll. Bullmoose Jackson sings “I Adore You Yes I Do” 14 years before James Brown did it on Live at the Apollo Vol. 1.
By the time it’s over, you’re almost mature from the titanic (but largely forgotten and underrated for reasons we all know) talent, but smiling in shimmering that in spite of the report quality and cornball “spot,” you’ve been treated to 90 minutes of some unbelievable entertainment that DVD’s have rescued from the dustbins of history. Play this and it’s companion fraction “Killer Diller” while in your accepted chair with a nice cool glass after work or on a idle afternoon, and appreciate!
This is an mature dismal and white movie for Moms Mabley afficianados. It’s a fun movie with lots of aged stuff in it that is long gone but should not be forgotten. I heartily recommend it.
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