Jitterbugs ( Jitter bugs )

Jitterbugs (Blu-Ray) (*)

$23.99

Alternate Title: Jitter bugs
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
75 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1943 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Malcolm St. Clair

Written By:
Scott Darling

Actors:
Stan Laurel ..... Stan
Oliver Hardy ..... Ollie
Vivian Blaine ..... Susan Cowan
Robert Bailey ..... Chester Wright
Douglas Fowley ..... Malcolm Bennett
Noel Madison ..... Tony Queen
Lee Patrick ..... Dorcas
Robert Emmett Keane ..... Henry Corcoran

Synopsis:

If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films, it is because the studio was using the picture as a showcase for their newest singing discovery Vivian Blaine. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of travelling 'zoot suit' musicians who innocently team up with likable con man Chester Wright (Bob Bailey). In the course of their travels, Chester and the boys meet small-town girl Susan Cowan (Blaine), whose mother has been victimized by real-estate swindlers Corcoran (Robert Emmett Keane) and Bennett (Douglas Fowley). Reasoning that it takes a crook to catch a crook, Chester masterminds a complicated 'sting' to recover Mrs. Cowan's money. Chester's scheme requires Hardy to disguise himself as amorous Southern colonel Wattison Bixby, and obliges Laurel to don women's clothing as Susan's Aunt Emily. Alas, the boys aren't quite up to the rigors of the confidence racket, and as result they end up the prisoners of Bennett's partner, gangster Tony Queen (Noel Madison). In escaping their captors, Laurel and Hardy utilize Chester's phony 'gas pills', which when swallowed cause the bad guys to float to the ceiling! The film concludes with a wild runaway-showboat sequence, consisting largely of stock footage from the 1938 Fox musical Sally, Irene and Mary. Worth the admission price in itself is the romantic rendezvous between Oliver Hardy and phony Southern belle Lee Patrick.

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for 'gasolene pills' in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

Laurel and Hardy track down the gang who swindled a girl and her mother in a real estate deal.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 January, 2012.

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