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Bupp Filmology
Week Seven
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"Hey, Hey U.S.A." 1938
Tommy with Will Hay.
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MOVIE NAME: HEY, HEY U.S.A.
STUDIO: GAINSBOROUGH
PRODUCER:EDWARD BLACK
DIRECTOR: MARCEL VARNEL
DATE: 1938
TYPE: COMEDY DRAMA
CAST:
WILL HAY as Benjamin Twist, EDGAR KENNEDYas Bugs Leary ,DAVID BURNS as Tony Ricardo, EDMON RYAN as Ace Marco, TOM BUPP as Bertie Schultz,FRED DUPREZ as Cyrus Schultz, PADDY REYNOLDS as Mrs. Schultz , ARTHUR GOULLET as "Gloves" Johnson , GIBB MCLAUGHLIN as Ship’s Steward, EDDIE POLA as Announcer,PETER GAWTHORNE as Captain
STORY:
The English take a look at Chicago gangsters as two rival Windy City
gangs fight over a kidnapping aboard an ocean liner. Hay is an
ex-school-teacher who becomes the ship's porter and runs into the
gangs (Kennedy) who are after a millionaire's son (Tommy Bupp). They get the boy after some
wild, offbeat comic sequences, but funny man Hay manages to
outwit them and save the lad.
Note:
Tommy was the first American child actor to go to England to make a movie. He and his mother got to travel "First Class" on the Queen Mary.
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