Directed by:
Vincente MinnelliCast:
Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Sam Levene, Thurston Hall, Lena Horne, Jimmy Dorsey, John Hodiak, Butterfly McQueen, Morris Ankrum (more)Plots(1)
The film's title comes from a Red Skelton catchphrase, the storyline comes from Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage and the fun comes from everywhere in this pratfalling usicomedy directed by Vincente Minnelli. Eleanor Powell dances. Lena Horne sings. Jimmy Dorsey swings. Hazel Scott sears the ivories. And Red (as Joe) doods the rest with routines that include his hilarious attempt to put his blotto honeymoon bride to bed and, in a nod to the era, with heroics that pit him against Nazi saboteurs. They're gonna get a whippin'! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Red Skelton
USA
Eleanor Powell
USA
Best movies:
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Born to Dance (1936)
Patricia Dane
USA
Best movies:
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Johnny Eager (1941)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Sam Levene
Russian Empire
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
...And Justice for All (1979)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Thurston Hall
USA
Best movies:
Dodge City (1939)
Virginia City (1940)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Lena Horne
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Jimmy Dorsey
USA
Best movies:
Birth of the Blues (1941)
John Hodiak
USA
Best movies:
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Lifeboat (1944)
Butterfly McQueen
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Morris Ankrum
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Colorado Territory (1949)
Charles Judels
Netherlands
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
San Francisco (1936)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Marjorie Gateson
USA
Best movies:
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Dorothy Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
William Bishop
USA
Best movies:
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
James Flavin
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Jeffrey Sayre
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Harold Miller
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)