The Gay Nighties (1933)
1933 · Short film · 20 min · dir. Mark Sandrich
- Comedy
Synopsis
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Mark Sandrich
- Writer
- Ben Holmes
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Released
- 1933-06-22
- Running time
- 20 minutes
Cast & crew
Mark Sandrich Director
Bobby Clark- Paul McCullough
James Finlayson
Dorothy Granger
John Sheehan
Monte Collins
Sandra Shaw
Charles Williams
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough In A Comedy Short · porterville · 2011-03-15
A 20-minute fun comedy short featuring the team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough.
★★★ · Surprise! I liked it! · junya · 2012-03-07
Never heard of these comics, so expected the usual unimaginative, hackneyed, and mean-spirited banter that gets passed off for comedy. Wrong! The pre-Hays code humor is zany, sort of a low-budget Hellzapoppin', with word play slightly akin to Groucho (and painted eyeglasses to match Groucho's painted mustache and eyebrows). And no ukuleles were harmed in the making of this film!
