Umpa

1933
16m

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Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "Woman Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot sto... Read allDialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "Woman Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a docto... Read allDialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "Woman Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.

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8AlsExGal

What a goofy delight

This thing is pure Depression era escapism from the same studio at the same time they brought you The Three Stooges, just a year early actually. A man meets a young woman in the park and his heart starts going Umpa. He visits a doctor's office where the nurses are dressed in satin like the Goldwyn Girls of the same era, a Busby Berkeley like number breaks out, and a song you may know from the first Stooges Short - "My Life My Love My All" - actually originated here.

There's an exciting chase scene at the end where the doctor must outrun the Umpa bird, also known as a stork. .Everyone in the world should sing their thoughts, speak in rhyme, and dance around like fools. The world would be a much nicer place!

planktonrules

After the 50th time you hear 'umpa' in the film, you're ready to scream!

"Umpa" is an incredibly annoying short from Columbia. This company made a lot of bad short films, but this is the first one I saw that really got me irritated!

The film consists of Jack Osterman dancing about town singing...and each line is followed by 'umpa, umpa, umpa'. And, soon others begin doing the same...singing and saying 'umpa, umpa, umpa' for no apparently reason. As for the plot, well, it's pretty insignificant and it's mostly a musical with all sorts of bizarro elements. It works at being different, but is not particularly good and different!

If you care to see it or use it to annoy someone, it's currently posted on YouTube.

boris-26

Wacky pre-code short

Starring "The Bad Boy of Broadway", Jack Osterman (1903-1939), UM-PA concerns a flaky young man (Jack looking like Desi Arnez) who has a hang up of saying "Um-Pa" This sound effect/word is used to replace either the word "sex", "women", or desire. He nearly dies on an operating table, and falls in love with his nurse. He is forced to either go to jail or marry the nurse. A year later, Jack becomes the father of quintuplet boys. This is a musical short done totally in song or ryhming dialog. The film co-stars Lois January (1913- ) who plays one of the nurses. She was in a lot of these early rare musical shorts. One of her claims to fame is she is the woman holding the siamese cat that distracts Toto from the balloon in WIZARD OF OZ.

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When the Judge asks Officer McCarty what charges are to be brought against Jack and Gloria, he replies that they have broken laws in Sections 92, 68, 126, 82, 64, 27, 49, 33, 44, 20, 55, and 66.