Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTwo men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer.Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer.Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Cop on Pier
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- Accomplice on Boat
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- Pool Singer
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- Radio Cop
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- Cop
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- Fat Man on Kiddie Ride
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This bit reminded of a Monk episode where Tony Shalhoub says he can swim because he took a correspondence course. Wheeler has read all on the subject of aviation but he's never flown and even Woolsey didn't know that.
So how stupid does that make crook Jack Carson who is trying to steal some valuable jewels arriving by ship from Europe? Carson's man steals them on ship and drops them over in a life preserver. Bert is supposed to take a seaplane over the spot they are dropped, retrieve them and give them to Carson who is to meet them on another boat. He says it's valuable pictures.
Anyway the boys make a mess of it when it's a police seaplane they steal and then after retrieving the swag get taken in by millionaire Paul Harvey, wife Margaret Dumont and daughter Marjorie Lord. With cops and Carson looking for them and the family dog stealing and burying the jewels the whole steps on the edge of absurdity.
Sadly this was Wheeler&Woolsey's last film with Bob dying a year later. And even more sad is that they seem to have been forgotten.
A pity because this film had some gems. Bert does a homage to Charlie Chaplin with Marjorie Lord with a Little Tramp routine. And Bob gets vamped by the maid Lupe Velez and they do a nice patter song and dance.
If you are a Wheeler&Woolsey fan this one is a bittersweet must.
The bottom line is that the film never really made me smile or laugh. So many of the snappy lines from Woolsey never seemed to have punchlines or points--it was just "blathering". A very tiresome and unfunny film with so little energy it just isn't worth seeing unless you are a die-hard fan.
I don't find the guys funny. They don't get one single laugh even when one of them try to play the Chaplin tramp. One does a black-face dance and Arlene claims that it's the funniest thing ever. The only slightly funny one is Juanita with her exaggerated Latina character. There is some song and dance mixed in. It's not the best, but at least, that's somewhat fine.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesRobert Woolsey was terminally ill and suffering from kidney disease during filming, as he had during the previous film, "On Again-Off Again (1937)." He struggled to complete "High Flyers" and died less than a year after its release.
- Citations
Martha Arlington: What you need is a referee. "Tell her this" and "Tell her that." You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Now, act like a lady. And you, young man, act likewise. I mean, like a gentleman.
- Bandes originalesKeep Your Head Above Water
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Dave Dreyer
Lyrics by Herman Ruby
Sung by Dorothy Compton, Beatrice Hagen, And Mary Moder during the opening scenes
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- High Flyers
- Lieux de tournage
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 10 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1