Episode 086: Hellzapoppin’ (1941)

An everything but the kitchen sink zany masterpiece!!!

Directed by H.C. Potter. Starring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Elisha Cook JR. and Shemp Howard.

How is the world wrong about Hellzapoppin’?

From Bryan: Fall down on your face funny stuff starring forgotten comedy duo Olsen & Johnson. Is this the greatest comedy of all time that no one talks about? Yep. Never released on a proper home video format this film inspired great filmmakers like Zucker & Abrahams & Zucker, Joe Dante, Allan Arkush and Steven Spielberg. The earliest example I can think of the joke per second way of presenting gags. Released the same year as Citizen Kane and goddammit just as important!

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